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The price of polarization : estimating task prices under routine‐biased technical change
Böhm, Michael - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 761-799
the sorting of workers into tasks and their associated wage growth can be used to identify changes in task prices under … over time depending on the changes in prices of those tasks that they predict workers to sort into. In the generalized Roy … workers in U.S. data indicate that abstract and manual tasks' relative prices indeed increased during the 1990s and 2000s. …
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians …), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had …
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Evolution of wage inequality in India (1983-2017) : the role of occupational task content
Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020
whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for skills has shaped evolution of earnings inequality in India. We rule …
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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana
Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020
there was a pro-rich change in the earnings returns to routine tasks performed by workers. …
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255962
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262956
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341841
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Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765032
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Multitasking and wages
Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753769
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Le Minh, Phuong; Marshalian, Michelle - 2020
In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on Tunisian labour force surveys from the past 20...
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