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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079230
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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039640
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The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761621
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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
decreases average wages, productivity and investment. Our results are robust to several specification changes, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762221
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079235
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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … labor away from these low-productivity activities into higher value added sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822874
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822664
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214029
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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269610
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233852