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Challenges of Nordic labour markets: A polarization of working life?
Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lundborg, Per; Nilsen, … - 2011
Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in 'middling' occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, William Stanley - 2004
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits? average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age...
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Methodological issues related to the use of online labour market data
Fabo, Brian; Kureková, Lucia M´ytna - 2022
This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
data are based on a number of matched longitudinal administrative data sets covering the full population of Sweden. For the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262217
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The Design and Effects of Collectively Agreed Minimum Wages: Evidence from Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2007
Minimum wages in Sweden are collectively agreed and differ by industry. Within agreements, the rates are also highly … differentiated. Minimum wages are higher in Sweden than in any of the countries with statutory rates considered in this study. This … reported results for Sweden do no support the suggestion that adverse employment effects are modest in systems with …
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Transatlantic differences in labour markets changes in wage and non-employment structures in the 1980s and the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon...
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...
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