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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022
We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...
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Automation and income inequality in Europe
Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2024
We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a period of rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the US....
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The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2022
occupations intensive in routine manual or routine cognitive tasks, but were insignificant in occupations intensive in non …-routine cognitive tasks. For young and old workers in countries with lower labour costs, robot exposure had a beneficial effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198211
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Long-run patterns of labour market polarisation: Evidence from German micro data
Bachmann, Ronald; Cim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018
routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be concentrated in middle skill occupations. A large literature on labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855712
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331343
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Eff ects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705763
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Effects of skills training on employment and livelihood outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with young women in Ghana
Frohnweiler, Sarah; Adongo, Charles A.; Beber, Bernd; … - 2024
We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053584
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Agglomerations, tasks and wage growth
Perl, Maximilian - 2023
Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000379
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Technological progress and the dynamics of self-employment: Worker-level evidence for Europe
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Milasi, Santo; … - 2023
We examine how technology is associated with self-employment dynamics using worker-level data from 31 European countries. We find that while employees exposed to labour-augmenting technologies are more likely to move from paid-employment to solo self-employment and viceversa, employees exposed...
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It's a woman's world? Occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Stepanyan, Gayane - 2020
technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do … social and cognitive skills. While the female share in high-paid occupations increases over time, the share of women in the …
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