The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences … affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity … of labor demand differs between multinational and non-multinational firms as well as between foreign-owned and domestic …

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive … rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and … of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor …

influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment, though the effect is modest. No effects from regular labor income …

recent literature in international economics and define the division of labor in terms of job tasks. Our econometric results … comparison, dividing labor according to educational attainment does not capture the found effects on relative labor demand. …

features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of … education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a., demographic characteristics and fields-of-study. Second, low-skilled labor … for four categories of labor, two types of capital and intermediate goods. The empirical application covers 24 industries …