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Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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How Do Insurers Price Medical Malpractice Insurance?

Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022

We study the factors that predict medical malpractice ("med mal") insurance premia, using national data from Medical Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we estimate long run elasticities of premia to...

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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …

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Are Occupations Paid What They are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity

Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012

contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant …

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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data : An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel - 2012

of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation …

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The Diffusion of Pay for Performance Across Occupations

Bayo Moriones, José Alberto - 2010

In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are significant differences between occupations in the incidence of individual, group and firm or plant...

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It Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations

Eggenberger, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize workers' occupational skill bundles along two independent dimensions. First, we distinguish between...

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On the Sorting of Physicians Across Medical Occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2021

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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