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AI, Task Changes in Jobs, and Worker Reallocation

Gathmann, Christina; Grimm, Felix; Winkler, Erwin - 2024

How does Artificial Intelligence (AI) affect the task content of work, and how do workers adjust to the diffusion of AI in the economy? To answer these important questions, we combine novel patent-based measures of AI and robot exposure with individual survey data on tasks performed on the job...

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001

This paper assesses the potential of ?workplace training? with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ?optimal? training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper assesses the potential of ‘workplace training’ with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ‘optimal’ training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763928

Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test

Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

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Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

Carranza, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Rankin, Neil - 2021

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and … workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly … share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search …

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

Valletta, Robert G. - 2016

demand for advanced cognitive skills ("skill downgrading"). Analyses of wage and employment data from the U.S. Current …

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Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

reduce the rate of unemployment or to reduce the negative effects of unemployment and to promote skills, capability and …

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