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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution
Chéron, Arnaud - 2012
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755400
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Untangling Trade and Technology : Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Autor, David H. - 2015
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035726
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ICT Skills and Employment : A Randomized Experiment
Blanco, Mariana - 2015
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and Bogota. Using cross-sectional data from an experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038425
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060122
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The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237199
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer.Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033677
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909972
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Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas : A Review of the Literature
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2019
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing countries. Much of the literature focusses on the impact of monetary policy on inflation levels and inflation volatility, and sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870283
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Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084034
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Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia : The Issue of Youth Unemployment
Stampini, Marco - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment over the next few years. Second, forecasts indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127324