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Do recessions accelerate routine-biased technological change? Evidence from vacancy postings

Hershbein, Brad J.; Kahn, Lisa B. - 2016

of upskilling - firms demanding more-skilled workers when local employment growth is slower. We find that upskilling is … sizable in magnitude and largely due to changes in skill requirements within firm-occupation cells. We argue that upskilling … more over the same time period; and 3) upskilling is concentrated within routine-task occupations - those most vulnerable …

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Cyclical skill-biased technological change

Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - 2009

Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...

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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions

Stadin, Karolina - 2012

estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to …

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The polarization of employment in German local labor markets

Senftleben, Charlotte; Wielandt, Hanna - 2012

This paper uses the task-based view of technological change to study employment and wage polarization at the level of local labor markets in Germany between 1979 and 2007. In order to directly relate technological change to subsequent employment trends, we exploit variation in the regional task...

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Investment shocks and the relative price of investment

Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2009

We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the relative price of investment. The second shock affects...

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IT Capital, Job Content and Educational Attainment

Spitz, Alexandra - 2003

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006

Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Explaining the dynamics in perceptions of job insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on...

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