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Cities, Tasks and Skills
Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - 2014
largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352294
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Cities, Tasks and Skills
Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074817
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Working from Home in Developing Countries
Gottlieb, Charles; Grobovsek, Jan; Poschke, Markus; … - 2020
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322536
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The Times They are A-Changin'
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262462
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005891
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The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762259
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307478
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351892
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426346
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Culture and the Labor Supply of Female Immigrants
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296533