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We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
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We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532546
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
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childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …
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to cognitive ability are generally consistent across family background groups, personality traits have very different …
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overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has implications for how firms recruit and promote workers …
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job employment. This indicates that while overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has …
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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 …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …
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We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …
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Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...
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