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The Relationship Between Skilled Labor and Technical Change
Savvidou, Eleni - 2003
This study investigates whether capital-skill complementarity is the explanation for skill-biased technical change. For this to be the case, capital-skill complementarity must exist in the first place and, secondly, all technical change must be embodied in nature, i.e. embedded in new capital...
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The multi-dimensional nature of labor demand and skill-biased technical change
Mellander, Erik - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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Is Super-Fast Broadband Negative? An IV-Estimation of the Broadband Effect on Firms' Sales and Employment Level
Nordin, Martin; Grenestam, Erik; Gullstrand, Joakim - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between super-fast broadband and firms' sales and employment level in Sweden. It is important to learn more about this recent technological change and few studies has explored the impact of super-fast broadband on firm outcomes. We use the previous...
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Technological change and the Swedish labor market
Graetz, Georg - 2020
This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent the Swedish labor market has been affected by technological change in the past three decades, in particular with respect to the themes highlighted by the research; and draws...
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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008 - 09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level
Devereux, Kevin; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024
Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they do not exceed the marginal product of labour. We find evidence of non-monotonicity both by market structure and minimum wage level. Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours...
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Did bank lending stifle innovation in Europe during the great recession?
Peia, Oana; Romelli, Davide - 2019
external finance, to identify a causal effect of bank credit supply on firm investment in innovation. We show that firms that …
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The Role of Services for Manufacturing Firms' Exports
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2012
Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness abroad. Services are also instrumental in connecting...
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Punjab's agricultural innovation challenge
Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and … new round of agricultural innovation in Punjab. These are: complexity of the agricultural economy, complementary inputs … such as infrastructure, switching costs (including risks), balancing frontier innovation and adaptation, and the relative …
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