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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Skill-Biased"”.
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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and inequality
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Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change
… This coincides with the period of accelerating skill-biased technological change. A decomposition of the divergence rate indicates three channels underlying the divergence: (1) an ever-widening wage gap between college graduates and high school graduates, (2) an increasing within-education group …
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Wage structures and employment outcomes in New Zealand, and their relationship to technological change
… but internationally the most favoured theory is skill-biased technological change, driven by the new information and communication technologies. This thesis used income and wage data from the New Zealand Population Census and the New Zealand Income Survey to examine wage trends between 1991 and …
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Firms, Labor Markets and Anti-System Politics: Essays on the Political Economy of Populism
… politics, like globalization, trade, or skill-biased technological change, are incomplete if firms are ignored. I test a firm-based theory of anti-system politics in Italy and Brazil, using a combination of original survey data, survey experiments and quasi-experimental designs. In the …
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Information technology and the rise of the power law economy
… distribution has slowed, suggesting a slowing of skill-biased technical change, (3) more individuals now select into the power law economy, (4) there is more skewness within that economy.
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Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
… returns from college. Allocation of ability into skill is determined by the equilibrium skill premium. Incorporating a production of higher education, the properties of the college market equilibrium are discussed. A skill biased technical change initially decreases self-selection into college, …
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Occupational change : automation and reskilling risks
… a novel occupation-industry level panel of skill demands from the near-universe of tagged online job postings in the US for the last decade (2010-2018). We use this data to study how the skill demands of occupations have changed and how these changes affect the returns to skills. Low- and …
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Learning in the labor market
… wage distribution. This model implies that a skill-biased technology change that also favors general skill can lead to increase both in job mobility and wage dispersion. This sheds light, on the joint evolution of job mobility and wage dispersion in the U.S. in the past 30 years. The second …
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Overcoming inequality in regional innovation ecosystems : the Basque country and the advance of economic democracy
… Together with the negative consequences of skill-biased technological change and its profound impact on labor, the proliferation of strategies for clustering innovation have also created challenges in spatial and socioeconomic segregation in regions. Using the case of the Basque Country in …
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Essays in the theory of economic growth
… Both chapters distinguish between general skills, that are equally useful with any vintage of technology, and specific skills, that are associated with a particular vintage. In Chapter 2, I construct a model of slow technology diffusion. In developing countries, diffusion takes the form of …
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Essays on labour market segmentation in Japan
… likelihood of having an equilibrium with cross-skill matching even if the model contains different turnover rates to heterogeneous jobs. The quantitative implications give the prediction that the unemployment rate of low-productivity workers increases, inequality grows, and welfare decreases as …
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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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Essays on economic growth and informational frictions
… I take a CES production function implied by a Skill-Biased technical change model and fit this production function to the data. The calibration results give evidence of the importance of including different skills to account for the observed income differences over time. I also show that the …
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Economic effects of demographic changes
… public R&D outlays. Thus an increased supply of skilled workers could raise the relative demand for them. The difference in support for R&D spending suggests that it favors skilled workers either by directly employing them or indirectly by generating skill-biased technological change.
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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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QUALIFICATION MISMATCH AND OCCUPATIONAL CHANGE: THE ROLE OF DEMAND, SUPPLY AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN EXPLAINING CROSS-NATIONAL VARIATIONS
… out” of susceptible to automation middle-skilled jobs and the growth in low-skilled jobs. Furthermore, the imperfect match between demand and supply resulted in an increasing phenomenon of qualification mismatch and overeducation, questioning whether having higher education results in …
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Essays on Prices and Variety Across Cities
… externalities in generating the aggregate and skill-biased agglomeration patterns that the more recent NEG literature associates with production externalities.
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
The present thesis is based on four articles in the areas of labor economics, regional science and international trade. I make use of different micro-level data sets to evaluate reasons for performance disparities between firms and between workers and evaluate the interrelation of these disparities …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
… the third essay, shifts to firm-level demand for skills so as to understand also potential consequences of trade reform policies for the labour market. Highlights of the three essays are as follows: The first essay (Chapter 2) investigates the interplay of trade liberalization and local business …
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Essays on Technology and Work
… consists of four papers on technology, work, skills, and personality using novel large-scale data and methods. The first paper (Chapter 1, with Johannes Hirvonen and Aapo Stenhammar) presents novel evidence on the effects of advanced technologies on employment, skill demand, and firm …