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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Wage Inequality and Skilled Labour Demand in EU Accession Countries

Falzoni, Anna M.; Bruno, Giovanni S. F.; Crinò, Rosario - 2005

During the 1990s Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have experienced rapid increases in wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and received the largest FDI inflow in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper analyzes whether FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality...

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Innovation, Labour Demand and Wages in Poland : Some Introductory Results Using Micro-Macro Data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2013

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...

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The evolution of wage inequality within local U.S. labor markets

Eisenbarth, Anthony; Chen, Zhuo Fu - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25

There are few concentrated studies on wage inequality across local labor markets at the city or metropolitan level. This paper studies the changes in wage inequality among 170 metropolitan areas by using micro-level data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey from 1980 to 2019. We...

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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Loebbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...

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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

. Während Verschiebungen der Arbeitsnachfrage, nämlich eine vermehrte Ausübung von Routine-Tätigkeiten sowie die Verlagerung von … Verschiebungen im Arbeitsangebot entlang der Arbeitsnachfragekurve ebenfalls zu einer Job-Polarisierung geführt haben. In dieser … erklären können. Zu diesem Zweck bestimmen wir unkonditionale Lohnelastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage, indem wir zum ersten Mal …

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Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality

Leonardi, Marco - 2003

This paper provides some empirical evidence and a theory of the relationship between residual wage inequality and the increasing dispersion of capital/labor ratios across firms. I document the increasing variance of capital/labor ratios across firms in the US labor market. I also show that the...

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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2018

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany's labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...

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Population aging, labor demand, and the structure of wages

Papadopoulos, Michael; Patria, Margarita; Triest, Robert K. - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017

One consequence of demographic change is substantial shifts in the age distribution of the working-age population. As the baby boom generation ages, the usual historical pattern of a high ratio of younger workers relative to older workers has been replaced by a pattern of roughly equal...

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