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Routine-biased technological change and wage inequality : do workers' perceptions matter?

Vannutelli, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco - In: Eurasian business review 12 (2022) 3, pp. 409-450

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More insecure and less paid? : the effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018

This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...

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Routine biased technological change and wage inequality: do workers' perceptions matter?

Vannutelli, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco - 2021

The Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) has been called as a relatively novel technology-based explanation of … social changes like job and wage polarization. In this paper we investigate the wage inequality between routine and non-routine … workers along the wage distribution in Italy. Thanks to unique survey data, we can estimate the wage differential using both …

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More insecure and less paid? The effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018

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Inference on counterfactual distributions

Chernozhukov, Victor; Fernández-Val, Iván; Melly, Blaise - 2013

Counterfactual distributions are important ingredients for policy analysis and decomposition analysis in empirical economics. In this article we develop modeling and inference tools for counterfactual distributions based on regression methods. The counterfactual scenarios that we consider...

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More Insecure and Less Paid? the Effect of Perceived Job Insecurity on Wage Distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred in the US not just recently, but also in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that in each case polarization resulted from increased automation, and...

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Power-biased technological change and the rise in earnings inequality

Skott, Peter; Guy, Frederick - 2005

New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': they have allowed firms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate rising...

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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S. - 2000

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...

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Occupational tasks and wage inequality in Germany : a decomposition analysis

Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

gap, while interactive and routine tasks drive the lower wage gap. Importantly, we find low-wage occupations to have the … highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both …

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