Digitalisierte Produktionsprozesse und neue Technologien verändern Arbeitsweisen und -abläufe, Kommunikation mit Kollegen, Vorgesetzten und Kunden. Aus arbeitswissenschaftlicher Sicht entstehen neue Belastungen und Beanspruchungen für Beschäftigte. Wissensarbeit ist fokussiert darauf, neues...

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

Digitalisierte Produktionsprozesse und neue Technologien verändern Arbeitsweisen und -abläufe, Kommunikation mit Kollegen, Vorgesetzten und Kunden. Aus arbeitswissenschaftlicher Sicht entstehen neue Belastungen und Beanspruchungen für Beschäftigte. Wissensarbeit ist fokussiert darauf, neues...

Die Förderung der Zuwanderung qualifizierter Arbeitskräfte aus dem Ausland gehört zu den Maßnahmen der westlichen Industrienationen zur Sicherung des Fachkräftebestandes. Bisher zeigt sich jedoch, dass sowohl Deutschland als auch die EU im Vergleich zu anderen Industrienationen insgesamt...

Routine-biased technological change (RBTC), whereby routine-task jobs are replaced by machines and overseas labor, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish...

Routine-biased technological change (RBTC), whereby routine-task jobs are replaced by machines and overseas labor, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish...

Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...

This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high- and low-wage occupations increases but mid-wage occupations decline. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we...

Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

Die Blaue Karte hat sich als Zugangsweg für Hochqualifizierte nach Deutschland bewährt. Seit 2012 ist die Zahl der vergebenen Karten kontinuierlich gestiegen. Eine weitere Absenkung der Gehaltsschwellen könnte den Aufenthaltstitel allerdings für Zuwanderungsinteressierte noch attraktiver und...

This paper combines three location-based cases with literature background focusing on knowledge bases and cities. The paper considers the regional context of the city of Helsinki and its surrounding area (HMA). Analyzed cases include three specific locations highlighting urban form, connectivity...

Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...

This paper examines the linkages between real exchange rate movements and firms' skill demand. Real exchange rate movements may affect unskilled workers differently than skilled workers because of skill-specific adjustment costs, or because exchange rates lead to changes in relative factor...

This paper tries to answer the question how taxation of corporate and individual income affects competition among firms for highly-skilled human resources like CEOs. It shows that individual income taxes can perform a substantial impact on the outcome of such a competition if marginal tax rates...