Purpose - Following a task-based framework, this paper investigatesthe impact of technology on occupational employment in Egypt (1998-2018) by examining the employment implications of the Routine-biased Technological Change (RBTC) hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach - The study estimates...

Immigrants across Europe earn less and work in lower-quality jobs than natives, but the mechanisms underlying these disparities remain poorly understood. This paper asks whether immigrant disadvantage reflects barriers to accessing good jobs or skill deficits that persist even within similar...

We study the role of expertise in new work - novel occupational roles that emerge as technological and economic conditions evolve - using newly available 1940 and 1950 Census Complete Count files and confidential American Community Survey data from 2011- 2023. We show that new work is...

New digital and artificial intelligence technologies are fast reshaping skill requirements in the EU labour market, fostering skill mismatches. There are marked concerns about the potentially adverse consequences of automation and AI on employment, as well as the lagging competitiveness of EU...

This paper develops a task-adjusted, country-specific measure of workers' exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) across 108 countries. Building on Felten et al. (2021), we adapt the artificial intelligence occupational exposure (AIOE) index to worker-level data from the Programme for the...

We study the role of expertise in new work - novel occupational roles that emerge as technological and economic conditions evolve - using newly available 1940 and 1950 Census Complete Count files and confidential American Community Survey data from 2011-2023. We show that new work is...

The performance of employees is important for all organizational stakeholders. Prior research concentrated on how well workers performed in private-sector businesses in developed nations, with the public sector in emerging nations receiving little attention. This study's goal is to investigate...