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Competition, Innovation and the Effect of Knowledge Accumulation

Steinmetz, Alexander - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

-doing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. I develop a dynamic step by step innovation model … with history dependency. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark I show that without knowledge … experience by performing R&D the resulting effect of knowledge induces technological leaders to rest on their laurels which …

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Wage Inequality and Firm Growth

Mueller, Holger M; Ouimet, Paige; Simintzi, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We examine how within-firm skill premia–wage differentials associated with jobs involving different skill requirements–vary both across firms and over time. Our firm-level results mirror patterns found in aggregate wage trends, except that we find them with regard to increases in firm size....

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Spatial effects of open borders on the Czech labour market

Moritz, Michael - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also ef-fects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern Euro-pean Countries (CEEC). I analyse whether during the undoubtedly increasing integration of markets the Czech border region close to the...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Multitasking and Wages

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...

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Task trade and the employment pattern: the offshoring and onshoring of Brazilian firms

Ehrl, Philipp - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the effect of an expansion of imported intermediate inputs on establishments’ average task intensities and employment size in a middle-income country. I use confidential matched employer-employee data and information on trade transactions for the universe of Brazilian firms....

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A breakdown of residual wage inequality in Germany

Ehrl, Philipp - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The present paper applies several regression-based decomposition methods to analyze the impact of region-, worker-, firm- and sector-specific determinants on the wage level and the continuous increase in wage inequality between 1995 and 2007 in Germany. In contrast to prior studies, more than...

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

OECD labor markets have become more “polarized” with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to...

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Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

Barlevy, Gadi; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. This conclusion is largely based on data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time, however. This Paper examines the connection between long-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality....

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