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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period … skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
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Staff, Functions, and Staff Costs at Central Banks: An International Comparison with a Labor-demand Model
Camacho, Jorge Galán; Paipilla, Miguel Sarmiento - Banco de la Republica de Colombia
During the period 2000-2004 central banks sustained a generalized reduction in their staff, which was accompanied, in most cases, with significant increases in staff costs. This could obey to an enhanced interest of central banks in focusing on their core functions. In fact, central banks have...
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
At the heart of the Skill Biased Technical Change literature is a discussion of the temporal impact of technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262871
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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
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Firm-Level Shocks and Labor Adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
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Les nouvelles technologies ont-elles modifié la trajectoire et la rémunération des jeunes et des qualifiés dans les années 1990 en France ?. Une étude à partir de données appariées entre individus et entreprises
Heckel, Thomas - In: Revue économique 57 (2006) 6, pp. 1383-1400
Computer networks spread in French firms during the nineties. Firms also began connecting to Internet at the same time. This article evaluates the impact of the adoption of these technologies on the labour demand and on the wages of young or old and skilled or unskilled employees. According to...
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Effects of innovation on firm performance
Lachenmaier, Stefan - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Stefan Lachenmaier while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in March 2007 and was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is an econometric...
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Employment, partnership and childbearing decisions of German women and men: A simultaneous hazards approach
Niedergesäss, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the interrelated dynamics of employment, cohabitation and fertility for German women and men. Using a simultaneous hazards approach due to Lillard (1993), I estimate a five-equation model with unobserved heterogeneity. One of the contributions of this paper is to include...
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Staff, Functions, and Staff Costs at Central Banks: An International Comparison with a Labor-demand Model
Camacho, Jorge Galán; Sarmiento, Miguel - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2006
During the period 2000-2004 central banks sustained a generalized reduction in their staff, which was accompanied, in most cases, with significant increases in staff costs. This could obey to an enhanced interest of central banks in focusing on their core functions. In fact, central banks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597608
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LABOR ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: AN APPLICATION OF SYSTEM GMM
Esperança, Pedro M. - Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE), Ministério da … - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the Portuguese labor market using micro data: implications of adjustment costs to input factor adjustment throughout the business cycle are discussed; the current situation of the Portuguese labor market is reviewed; and measures of speed of adjustment for...
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