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The labour market effects of the Polish educational reform of 1999

Drucker, Luca Flóra; Horn, Dániel; Jakubowski, Maciej - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21

We estimate the effect of the 1999 education reform in Poland on employment and earnings. The 1999 education reform in Poland replaced the previous 8 years of general and 3/4/5 years of tracked secondary education with 9 years of general and 3/3/4 years of tracked upper-secondary education. The...

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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...

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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...

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Automation and reallocation : the lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...

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Automation and the Future of Young Workers : Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

Feigenbaum, James; Gross, Daniel P. - 2021

Telephone operation, one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s, provided hundreds of thousands of female workers a pathway into the labor force. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted mechanical switching technology in more than half of the U.S. telephone network,...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

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Innovations Induce Asymmetric Employment Movements

Zwick, Thomas - 2008

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Multinational network, innovation and the growth of employment

Davies, Ronald B.; Santoni, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid; … - 2025

increasing understanding that innovation is concentrated among a small number of generally large firms. We contribute to this … debate by showing that the innovation-employment link for a firm is dependent on its multinational status. While we find that … innovation for multinationals. While we do find evidence suggesting that such firms benefit from innovation done by other …

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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; Weel, Bas ter - 2022

This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...

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