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Job polarization and task-biased technological change: Sweden, 1975-2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane's (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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Power, productivity and profits

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': in many industries they have allowed firms to monitor workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...

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Foregin Acquisition and Employment Effects in Swedish Manufacturing

Bandick, Roger; Karpaty, Patrik - 2007

, we evaluate the effects of foreign acquisitions on the targeted firms' employment by combining propensity score matching …

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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...

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Trade competition, technology and labor re-allocation

Bahar Baziki, Selva; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016

provide new evidence on the mobility of heterogeneous workers across firms and document increased assortative matching of … sorting patterns. We rationalize our empirical findings through a labor market matching model which is able to explain the … increased assortative matching in ICT intensive industries through an increase in the relative demand for qualified workers. …

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Bargaining for trade: When exporting becomes detrimental for female wages

Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Tingvall, Patrik; … - 2022

In this paper we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap. Our key finding is that export of goods that are...

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Do exporters import gender inequality?

Lark, Olga; Videnord, Josefin - 2023

We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms. We motivate the analysis through a stylized model where wages depend on worker productivity, and men have a comparative advantage when trading with gender-unequal countries due...

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The effects of international trade on gender inequality: women carpet weavers of Iran

Karimi, Zahra - 2008

The process of economic globalization has winners and losers. Iran's carpet industry provides a good illustration of the adverse side of this process. As the production costs of its rivals have fallen, surging international trade has reduced the market share of Iran's labor-intensive products,...

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AI unboxed and jobs: A novel measure and firm-level evidence from three countries

Engberg, Erik; Görg, Holger; Lodefalk, Magnus; Javed, … - 2023

We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, We develop and...

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