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Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers : does a rising tide lift all boats?

Schultheiss, Tobias; Pfister, Curdin; Gnehm, Ann-Sophie; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 82 (2023), pp. 1-23

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Artificial intelligence technologies, skills demand and employment : evidence from linked job ads data

Peede, Lennert; Stops, Michael - 2024

employment growth but slightly higher employment growth in jobs for highly skilled workers. …

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Upskilling : do employers demand greater skill when skilled workers are plentiful?

Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - 2014 - This version: January 30, 2015

Using a large database of online job postings, we demonstrate that employee skill requirements rise when there is a larger supply of relevant job seekers. We identify this effect using variation across time, occupations, and places, which allows us to control for potentially confounding factors....

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Downskilling: changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle

Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - 2016

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Downskilling : changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle

Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 333-347

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Downskilling : changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle

Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - 2016 - This version: July 2016

Using a novel database of 82.5 million online job postings, we show that employer skill requirements fell as the labor market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated with a roughly 0.27 percentage point reduction in the...

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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations

Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019

Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...

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Labour market polarisation revisited : evidence from Austrian vacancy data

Zilian, Laura S.; Zilian, Stella; Jäger, Georg - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17

. Many analyses in the field of economics are conducted to evaluate the changing share of employment in low-skill, medium …. This paper adds to the literature in two ways: First, we present the results of an analysis of data on job vacancies rather … changes in the skills demanded in job vacancies in Austria. In contrast to most previous research, we find no evidence for …

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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations

Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023

Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The … informality. This heightens insecurity – by excluding many workers from activation policies or social and employment protection …

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