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distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
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The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven mostly by younger age groups, while older age groups have not experienced any significant...
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skill supplies, technological capabilities, and trade and offshoring opportunities, in shaping the aggregate demand for …
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income countries. Moreover, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle income … countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. If international …
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A relatively unexplored question in dynamic labour demand regards the source of adjustment costs, whether they depend on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces adjustment costs related to gross and net changes in its...
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- negligible in lower skill occupations. Even more important channels contributing to the pay disadvantage of women working part …
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This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. Our analysis shows that the number of job postings declined by a third and remained low even when implemented restrictions were...
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Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to … analyse enterprise-level employment trends by skill level provides some evidence of skill-bias specific to enterprises with …
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occupations with a relatively higher proportion of younger and skilled workers. This evidence is in line with the Skill Biased …
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between … imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income … countries (HICs), namely those economies which have already experienced the occurrence of skill-biased technological change, to …
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