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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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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be …

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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more … and (ii) in an accounting sense the skills gap between the firms in the top and bottom deciles of the TFP distribution …

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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)

Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-skilled. The availability of skill use data further permit the computation of the degree of under and over-usage of skills in the … economy. The empirical analysis is carried out using the first wave of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), allowing …

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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...

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Relational Knowledge Transfers

Garicano, Luis; Rayo, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

An expert must train a novice. The novice initially has no cash, so he can only pay the expert with the accumulated surplus from his production. At any time, the novice can leave the relationship with his acquired knowledge and produce on his own. The sole reason he does not is the prospect of...

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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data

Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect obtained as a...

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Changes in the Functional Structure of Firms and the Demand for Skill

Maurin, Eric; Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of French manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1995. Firms employ a much greater proportions of engineers and researchers working on the design and marketing of new products and a much lower proportion of high-skilled experts...

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

, on the nature of intra-firm trade at the product level, and on the skills required for occupations with different …

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms,...

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