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Skills-Displacing Technological Change and its Impact on Jobs : Challenging Technological Alarmism?

McGuinness, Seamus - 2019

We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

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Working at Home in Greece : Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

atypical work hours. While remote workers in Greece receive a 7% monthly wage premium, their jobs are found to involve …

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Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market : A Skills-Needs Approach

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2018

This paper focuses on identifying determinants of 'automatability risk', namely the propensity of EU employees being in jobs with high risk of substitutability by machines, robots or other algorithmic processes, and uncovers its impact on labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and...

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Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity : Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2015

We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....

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How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?

McGuinness, Seamus - 2017

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus - 2016

workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a … decomposition techniques are employed to uncover the extent to which the overeducation wage penalty can be attributed to either (i …) skill needs of jobs. Differences in human capital and job‐skill requirements are important factors in explaining the wage …

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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the …

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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Livanos, Ilias - 2009

, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences … functions of the Hartog-type also indicate that women seek for less risky educations that consequently command lower wage …

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Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece : Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?

Livanos, Ilias - 2009

This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring … wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of … graduate unemployment, which vary considerably by field of study, and relatively low levels of wage flexibility. Using micro …

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Panos, Georgios A. - 2009

new primary jobs, particularly self-employment …

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