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Rise of the Machines : The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Graetz, Georg - 2015

in middle wage jobs relative to both high and low wage jobs. Our theory explains recent and historical instances of job …

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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2017

(2010) and in Molero-Simarro (2017). Our empirical results to date support the hypothesis that wage-induced technology …

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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...

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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity : Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat - 2019

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Dias da Silva, Antonio; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is...

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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

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Skills-Displacing Technological Change and its Impact on Jobs : Challenging Technological Alarmism?

McGuinness, Seamus - 2019

We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

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