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The Impact of ICT Investments on the Relative Demand for High-, Medium-, and Low-Skilled Workers : Industry Versus Country Analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2011

In this paper I analyze the impact of investments into information and communication technology (ICT) on relative … compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Next to investigating the influence of ICT in 14 countries, I … explore this impact for 23 industries. I find that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single …

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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to …

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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison

Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...

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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021

to growing national skill premia. However, if workers are not highly mobile across firms, industries and locations, then …

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection

Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012

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Trade Agreements and Global Pacts, Trade Deals and China's Trade Incursions (Presentation Slides)

Wind, Serge L. - 2018

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Global Medicine : Is it Ethical or Morally Justifiable for Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers to Go on Strike?

Chima, Sylvester - 2014

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Economic Restructuring in Long Beach : Opportunities and Challenges in a Post-Aerospace Economy

Drayse, Mark - 2016

The City of Long Beach and other centers of aerospace production that reaped the rewards of the 1980s defense-spending boom must now confront the realities of restructuring. Since World War II, the Douglas Aircraft plant made Long Beach an important center of the US aerospace industry and...

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Gindling, Thomas; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2021

This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...

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