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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019

-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …

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Looking inside the perpetual-motion machine : job and worker flows in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea; Marianna, Pascal - 2009

There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job and worker flows in a similar way in all countries. Others argue that cross-country differences in...

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Working in family firms : less paid but more secure? ; evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - 2011

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

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What are the factors behind pay settlements? : evidence from Spanish and British data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto (contributor); … - 2008

This article presents a study of the determinants of pay settlements in a sample of Spanish and British establishments. We find that variables such as establishment size and age, foreign ownership, labour costs, the existence of internal labour markets, a strategic approach to human resource...

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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor); … - 2008

roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our empirical results are consistent with the view that these factors … immigration ; globalization …

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...

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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach

Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2014

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...

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