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This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …
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programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment … such that it yields a positive employment effect. We test the effect of the norm on the wages on a sample of Polish firms …
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associated with it. In particular, we distinguish between employment, hours and effort per worker, and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes. We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …
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In this report we produce measures of skill mismatch in the domain of problem solving in technology-rich-environments using PIAAC data for the 13 countries of the European Union participating in the programme (plus the US), extending the methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We...
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/e-commerce activities on industry performance measured as employment and labour productivity growth. The second study presents new empirical …
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In this paper we examine how employment and hiring processes develop in the course of digitalisation in German … link between the topics of digitalisation and employment/hiring. We distinguish between different forms of digitalisation …
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The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article … manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We analyse two key dimensions of digitalisation - industries …. We first investigate their effect on total employment finding that job creation in industriesis supported by high digital …
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We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...
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we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and … targeting reducing inflation rates would also help to reduce unemployment rates in Sudan. Keywords Labour market; employment …
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