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Changes in occupations and their task content : implications for employment and inequality in Argentina, 2003-19

Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021

The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new millennium. Results show that the changes in...

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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth

Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019

assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological … inequality and lower output as occupation mobility has provided an "escape" for the losers from automation …

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Labor's Declining Share of Corporate Income : Impact on Income Inequality and the U.S. Job Recovery

Wind, Serge L. - 2015

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Automation and polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior automation arises when the most skilled workers have a comparative …

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Automation and Job Polarization : On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2016

Using data from 10 Western European countries, I provide evidence that the fall in prices of information technologies (IT) is associated with a lower share of employment in middle wage occupations and a higher share of employment in high wage occupations. The decline in IT prices has no robust...

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Automation and Job Polarization : On the Decline of Middling Occupations in Europe

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2016

Using data from 10 Western European countries, I provide evidence that the fall of prices of information technologies (IT) is associated with a lower share of employment in middle wage occupations and a higher share of employment in high wage occupations. The decline of IT prices has no robust...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982191

Moving from a poor economy to a rich one : the contradictory roles of technology and job tasks

Yashiv, Eran - 2020

The phenomenon of workers moving from a poor to a rich economy is high on the political agenda. When a worker moves to a richer economy, what is gained by the move? The empirical challenge in giving an answer stems from the difficulty to disentangle income differences from many other...

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Mechanization, Task Assignment, and Inequality

Yuki, Kazuhiro - 2016

Mechanization (or automation) - the replacement by machines of humans (and animals) engaged in production tasks- has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006849

Inequality, Technology and Job Polarization of the Youth Labor Market in Europe

Bheemaiah, Kariappa - 2015

This paper presents a connecting methodology in order to trace the emerging dynamics of inequality for the youth populace of Europe. We determine that the development of these dynamics are directly affected by the advancement of technology, and especially related to Information and Communication...

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