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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Skill bias"”.
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The Impact of Import Competition from China on the Skill-Bias of Manufacturing Employment across South African Regions between 2001 and 2011
… the impact that China has had on the skill bias of manufacturing employment within South Africa’s local municipalities between 2001 and 2011. The study follows on from two theories of trade: the Heckscher-Ohlin theory with its Stopler-Samuelson theorem, and specific factor theories. …
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
… increase in inequality centres on the notion of skill-biased technological change (SBTC). This view is based on the consensus that technical change favours more skilled workers, as new technologies evolve and are introduced into workplaces. This explanation relates the increases in earnings …
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Persistent reservations in mining?
… evidence to support the persistence. A White skill bias is noted and further investigated using Oaxaca decomposition. Observable skill sets such as education, experience, demographics and firm level characteristics are unable to adequately explain the occupational gap between the races. This …
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LOCAL LABOR MARKETS EXPOSURE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
… a majority of studies are forecasting that a skill-biased technological change will occur.</p> <p>This exploratory study contributes to the current literature by operationalizing Webb’s objective patent-based AI Exposure Index at a local labor market level. The study leveraged longitudinal …
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Three papers in international economics and macroeconomics
… is positively associated with the share of high-skilled hours worked but not with the skill premium. This is true in both the short and long run. To explain this puzzle, I develop a tractable general equilibrium model featuring skill bias in productivity and endogenous educational and …