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Coupling social networks with space : the embeddedness of low-skilled returnee’ entrepreneurship in rural China

Zhang, Yue; Liu, Langjie; Zha, Xiaofang; Sun, Li; … - 2026

Urban-to-rural return migration has become an increasingly important force reshaping rural livelihoods in China. Yet existing research on returnee entrepreneurship often assumes that migrants can transfer trans-local networks and resources accumulated during migration back to their hometowns and...

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High versus low skilled migration, corruption and trade

Mundra, Kusum; Liu, Tianhao - 2026

This paper shows that immigrants not only have differential effects on trade based on their skill levels but that they play an additional role in facilitating bilateral trade if their origin country has a higher level of corruption and weaker institutions. Using immigrant stock across skill...

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Meaningful work through craft : how workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition

Rostain, Marjolaine; Clarke, Jean - 2025

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Persistent low-skill traps : a propensity score matching study on occupational mobility of native and migrants workers in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Bosco, Maria Giovanna; Valeriani, Elisa; Armano, Linda - 2026

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Crossers in a segmented labour market : occupational advancement and wage changes from semi-skilled and unskilled jobs

Wotschack, Philip; Samtleben, Claire - 2025

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Firm responses to aggregate shocks and implications for workers : lessons from the pandemic

Alfonsi, Livia; Bassi, Vittorio; Rasul, Imran; Spadini, … - 2026

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A study of job polarization in Sweden from an urban-rural perspective

Nordin, Martin; Hammarlund, Cecilia; Bergh, Andreas - 2025

This study is an explorative examination of changes in employment, revenue, and firm structure for low, mid, and high-skill firms in urban and rural areas in Sweden from 2007 to 2019, using skill groups based on education levels. For employment in Sweden in general, we find evidence of job...

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2026

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2023

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on Us Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

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The role of technology intensity in shaping skilled labor demand through imports : the case of Türkiye

Köse, Tuna; Avcı, Mehmet; Aktan, Murat - 2025

According to the skill-biased technological change theory, the technological intensity of the imported input used in manufacturing may affect labor demand. This study examines the impact of imported inputs with different technological intensities on the absolute and relative demand for skilled...

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Umschulungsbereitschaft von Geringqualifizierten und finanzielle Anreize

Artmann, Elisabeth - 2026

Der technologische Wandel, die zunehmende Digitalisierung und der demographische Wandel der Bevölkerung bringen große Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt mit sich. Kontinuierliche berufliche Weiterbildung und lebenslanges Lernen gewinnen dadurch zunehmend an Bedeutung. Vor allem Personen ohne...

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Underemployment of college graduates : is doing anything better than doing nothing?

Ndayikeza, Michel Armel - 2025

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Skill-biased technological change across firms

Akerman, Anders; Goraya, Sampreet Singh; Wong, Horng Chern - 2026

Does skill-biased technological change benefit less-skilled workers? This paper shows that who gains or loses from SBTC depends on where it occurs across firms and how widely it diffuses across markets. Using Swedish administrative microdata, we document that large firms became increasingly...

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A multisector perspective on wage stagnation

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Sevinc, Orhun - 2025

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Exploring economic challenges and resilience during Covid-19 of low-skilled gig workers in urban India

Chaudhary, Kamal; Manchanda, Navneet; Santhanakrishnan, … - 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented financial distress for workers globally, particularly in developing economies with large informal labor markets. This study examines the coping mechanisms adopted by low-skilled platform (gig) and nonplatform workers in India to navigate financial...

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Structural changes of the labour market in the Czech Republic in terms of skills : is there any job polarization?

Náplava, Radek - 2024

Job polarization has been proven mainly in the United States and many Western European countries, but the Czech Republic has been relatively neglected in these surveys. This paper explicitly focuses on the Czech Republic and fills this gap from 2004-2017. Moreover, the Czech Republic is examined...

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From platforms to paychecks : comparative insights into wages of low-skilled platform and nonplatform workers in India

Chaudhary, Kamal; Manchanda, Navneet; Timilsina, Raja … - 2025

The rise of the gig economy and digital platforms has transformed labor markets globally, particularly in emerging economies like India. Platform work, often heralded for its flexibility and accessibility, has become a significant source of income for low-skilled workers, many of whom are...

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The wage effects of restricting temporary foreign workers : evidence from Canada's 2014 TFWP reforms

Chen, Wen-hao; Fang, Tony - 2025

This study examines the labor market impacts of Canada's 2014 reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), which introduced stricter limits on hiring low-skilled foreign workers. Using a difference-in-differences framework with Labour Force Survey data from 2005 to 2019, we compare...

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The race between education and technology in Chile and its impact on the skill premium

Campos-González, Jorge; Balcombe, Kelvin G. - 2024

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The bottom 20 percent : early career paths of youth with low grade point average

Hansen, Jörgen; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2024

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Bridging the wage gap : a discussion of wage subsidies to low-paid workers and their costs in Italy

Bonattia, Luigi; Lorenzettia, Lorenza Alexandra; … - 2025

This paper discusses the potential introduction of permanent public subsidies to supplement the wages of low-paid workers in Italy, taking inspiration from Edmund Phelps' ideas on supporting the working poor. We consider how a negative taxation scheme for low-wage earners might address...

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Effects of initial labor market conditions on job polarization : evidence from south korea

Kwon, Youngsoon; Shim, Myungkyu; Yang, Hee-Seung - 2024

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Why are wages of both skilled and unskilled workers lower in poor countries?

Srinivasan, Naveen; Narayanan, Poorna; Prabha, Megana; … - 2025

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Evaluating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour (both skilled and unskilled) in the Indian manufacturing sector

Gupta, Arpit; Arora, Kashika - 2024

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Thematic country review on upskilling pathways for low-skilled adults in Croatia : key findings of the first research phase

2025

This report presents the findings from the first (micro) phase of the thematic country review (TCR) on upskilling pathways (UP) in Croatia. It captures the perspectives of both the beneficiaries of the initiatives under review and the stake-holders involved in their implementation. The TCR on UP...

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a conjecture

Stark, Oded; Byra, Łukasz - 2025

In "Immigration, search and redistribution: A quantitative assessment of native welfare," a paper by Battisti et al. published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association, the authors inquire about how migration to 20 Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

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Ad hoc decisions as latent strategies : how do firms use nonstandard employment contracts?

Bouwhuis, Stef; Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; … - 2024

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Do temporary help agencies help? : employment transitions for low-skilled workers

Carrasco, Raquel; Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Jerez, Belén - 2024

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Do Temporary Help Agencies Help? Employment Transitions for Low-Skilled Workers

Carrasco, Raquel; Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Jerez, Belén - 2022

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Auswirkungen des (Nicht-)Handelns: mögliche Kosten des altersbedingten Abgangs von Fachkräften

Bock-Schappelwein, Julia; Bilek-Steindl, Sandra; Url, Thomas - 2025

Die Studie untersucht die Herausforderungen, die aus den massiven Abgängen der Arbeitskräfte ab 55 Jahren in den nächsten 5 bis 10 Jahren resultieren können, sowie den zusätzlichen Bedarf in Berufen, insbesondere im Kontext von Digitalisierung, Ökologisierung und dem Ersatzbedarf in...

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Home work: exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services

Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2024

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Evaluating the impact of the Mariel Boatlift on women's labor market outcomes : a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis

Wang, Yifan; Wang, Chunbei; Holmes, Chanita - 2025

Immigration continues to shape labor market dynamics, yet its gender-specific effects remain understudied. This study revisits the Mariel Boatlift, when about 125,000 Cubans arrived in Miami in 1980, increasing the local labor supply by 7%, to examine its impact on native women's labor market...

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Domestic outsourcing of low-skill jobs

Segiet, Katarzyna - 2025

Firms increasingly contract out a wide range of activities that were previously done in-house, such as cleaning, security, logistics, and catering. This paper provides evidence on the impact of outsourcing on workers' earnings and possible reasons that firms outsource by estimating panel data...

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A tale of two countries : two stories of job polarization

Albertini, Julien; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2024

The US and French job polarization appear similar based on employment shares by task. This study shows that they are different when per capita employment by task is used to identify the sources of these structural changes. We build a multi-sectorial general equilibrium model with search...

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Leben mit geringen Lese-, Alltagsmathematik- und Problemlösekompetenzen in den Jahren 2022/2023

2025

15% der Menschen in der Schweiz verfügen über geringe Kompetenzen in den Bereichen Lesen, Rechnen und adaptives Problemlösen. Dies entspricht ungefähr 844 000 Personen. Diese Kompetenzen sind jedoch von entscheidender Bedeutung, da sie als Grundlage angesehen werden, die notwendigen...

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Revisiting dualism : the governance of the low pay-low skill labour market in four European countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Scalise, Gemma - 2026

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Revisiting dualism? : the governance of the low pay-low skill labour market in four European countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Scalise, Gemma - 2024

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Do robots really destroy jobs? : evidence from Europe

Klenert, David; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Antón … - 2023

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Do robots really destroy jobs? : evidence from Europe

Klenert, David; Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Antón … - 2020

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El sistema nacional de formación laboral como mecanismo para enfrentar la informalidad

Coyoy, Erick; Sáenz, Fernando - 2025

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Moderne Einfacharbeit in der Region Dortmund : Entwicklungsdynamiken und Gestaltungsperspektiven in der Transformation

Ittermann, Peter; Maylandt, Jens - 2025

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Job tenure and unskilled workers before the industrial revolution : St Paul's Cathedral 1672-1748

Paker, Meredith M.; Stephenson, Judy; Wallis, Patrick - 2023

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Job tenure and unskilled workers before the industrial revolution : St Paul's Cathedral 1672-1748

Paker, Meredith; Stephenson, Judy; Wallis, Patrick - 2022

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Using online vacancy and job applicants' data to study skills dynamics

Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; … - 2022

We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce...

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The relationship between works councils and firms' further training provision in times of technological change

Lammers, Alexander; Lukowski, Felix; Weis, Kathrin - 2023

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Long-term distribution of the job offer in Romania and job polarization

Bănescu, Carmen-Elena; Țițan, Emilia; Manea, Daniela - 2023

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Methodological issues related to the use of online labour market data

Fabo, Brian; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022

This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...

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Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda

Caldarola, Bernardo; Grazzi, Marco; Occelli, Martina; … - 2022

This paper examines the relationship between mobile internet, employment and structural transformation in Rwanda. Thanks to its ability to enable access to a wide range of ICT technologies, internet coverage has the potential to affect the dynamics and the composition of employment...

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Employment trajectories of workers in low-skilled jobs in Western Germany

Kaboth, Arthur; Hünefeld, Lena; Himmelreicher, Ralf K. - 2023

According to the segmentation theory, low-skilled jobs belong to the secondary sector of the labour market. Low-skilled jobs do not require vocational training and workers are interchangeable. Therefore, workers in this sector have poor working conditions and are regularly affected by employment...

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Trade liberalization and Indian manufacturing sector dynamics : a difference-in-difference estimation approach

Ahmed, Aaheli; Chakraborty, Debashis - 2024

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Digital economy and wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers

Yang, Gongyan; Yao, Shujie; Dong, Xinran - 2023

This paper explores the impact of digital economy development on the wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers based on the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database in 2010-2020. The research results suggest that the higher the level of digital economy development, the larger the wage gap...

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Dynamic change of transnational labour transfer embodied in trade and China's participation from the perspective of global supply chains

Bai, Yuzhe; Gu, Gaoxiang - 2025

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A human capital theory of who escapes the grasp of the local monopsonist

Kahn, Matthew E.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2024

Over the last thirty years, there have been significant changes in several empirical measures of local labor market monopsony power. A monopsonist has a profit incentive to offer lower wages to local workers. High skilled mobile workers can avoid these lower wages by moving to other more...

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A Human Capital Theory of Who Escapes the Grasp of the Local Monopsonist

Kahn, Matthew E.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2023

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Digital skills and employment : inequalities and public policies in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pasquín, Myriam; López Martínez, María; … - 2025

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Birds of a feather earn together : gender and peer effects at the workplace

Messina, Julián; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024

Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...

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Birds of a feather earn together : gender and peer effects at the workplace

Messina, Julián; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2023 - Version December 2023

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