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Kauhanen, Antti; Riukula, Krista - 2019

This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that...

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Employment polarization and immigrant employment opportunities

Wielandt, Hanna - 2015

Building on the task-based approach of technological change, this paper discusses the interaction between occupational polarization (e.g. a gradual increase of native employment in the lowest and highest-paying jobs) and employment opportunities of immigrant workers. Using high quality...

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Adapting to the changing labour market in New Zealand

Carey, David - 2017

rates of qualification and skills mismatches would boost both wages and productivity. With the possibility of more workers … past and acquire skills that are more highly valued in the labour market. To maintain valuable skills, workers of all ages … the most out of skills will also depend on allocating skills to their most productive uses. Reducing New Zealand’s high …

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Job loss by wage level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland

Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25

boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …

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Job loss by wage level : lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland

Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25

boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660129

U-shaped wage curve and the Internet : the Colombian case

Martin, Diego A. - In: Estudios de economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 173-202

score matching techniques and household survey data to estimate the effect of the Internet on wages in Colombia, a country …

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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and …

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The scarring effects of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in Australia compared

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; Zhang, Wei - 2013

one on the scarring effects of low pay, but the possibility that skills mismatch in the form of skills under … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in … Australia, focussing on differences by gender and educational pathways. It shows that skills under-utilisation also exhibits …

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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013

The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...

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Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

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