{"title":"Business Advisory Services and Female Employment in an Extreme Institutional Context","authors":"S. Johan, Patricio Valenzuela","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3484474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3484474","url":null,"abstract":"Publicly funded business advisory services face pressure to demonstrate value-added effects among their assisted firms. Our research aims to measure the effectiveness of a business advisory program developed in a developed country and applied in an emerging economy with a male-dominated labor market. We also seek to determine the effects of increased professionalization resulting from advisory services. Comparing the business advisory services of a publicly funded organization with that of a matched sample, we observe an overall positive effect on job creation; however, this employment growth benefits males at the expense of females. We also find a reduction in unpaid family work and an increase in formal, full time employment but again, this professionalization and substitution effect mainly benefits male workers.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114221228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demographic Change as a Driver for Tourism Automation","authors":"C. Webster, Stanislav Ivanov","doi":"10.1108/jtf-10-2019-0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jtf-10-2019-0109","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000There are three major solutions to the demographic problem faced in developed countries and the replacement of human labour with automation is the most practical, immediate and has the fewest risks and negative externalities.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Industry has to adapt to the new demographic reality and embrace automation of services, educate their customers and have policies to deal with the resistance expected by labour.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000Society can expect that many of the tasks they commonly expect humans to be involved in will be done by machines and artificial intelligence in the near future, if demographic trends continue and massive immigration into developed countries is not a continuing phenomenon.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This links the relationship between demographic trends to the use of automation in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.\u0000","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130829919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Demetrio Marotta, Luis Lauriño, Luis Zambrano Sequín
{"title":"La IV Revolución Industrial y sus Impactos sobre el Mercado Laboral: Implicaciones para Venezuela (The IV Industrial Revolution and Its Impacts on the Labor Market: Implications for Venezuela)","authors":"Demetrio Marotta, Luis Lauriño, Luis Zambrano Sequín","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3331262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3331262","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Spanish Abstract:</b> En este trabajo se sintetizan los principales impactos, retos y dilemas que los recientes cambios tecnológicos están generando sobre el mercado de trabajo, los sistemas de protección social y las políticas públicas que tienen que ver con estas áreas. Particular interés se presta al caso venezolano, en virtud de la escasa atención que hasta ahora se ha prestado a esta problemática a pesar de las importantes vulnerabilidades que muestra como consecuencia de la larga crisis política, social y económica que se padece.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> This paper summarizes the main impacts, challenges and dilemmas that the recent technological changes are generating on the labor market, social protection systems and public policies that have to do with these areas. Particular interest is given to the Venezuelan case, due to the limited attention that has been given to these problems so far despite the significant vulnerabilities that it shows as a consequence of the long political, social and economic crisis that has been suffered.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132319715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Household Innovation and R&D: Bigger Than You Think","authors":"Daniel E. Sichel, E. Hippel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3333319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3333319","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of free goods and the digital revolution have generated new interest in household activities and how they should be measured. Earlier research considered other household activities, including household production and human capital accumulation. Yet, one important household activity, namely investment in household RD that is a household intangible capital asset. For example, a medical patient with a chronic disease like sleep apnea, may develop a significantly improved medical device to manage his or her disease, and then tell others about it. \u0000 \u0000This paper takes a step toward valuing household innovation by developing time series estimates of nominal and real investment and capital stocks for household R&D for product innovations in the United States. In the U.S., we find that household product R&D is significant. Our estimate of nominal investment in household R&D in 2017 is $44 billion and the nominal capital stock amounted to $252 billion. Household investment in R&D is more than 11 percent of R&D funded by the private business sector in 2017, and about half of what businesses spend on R&D to develop new products for consumers. Moreover, if household R&D were judged to be in scope for GDP, GDP would have been 0.2 percent higher in 2017. We conclude that household R&D is an important feature of household activity and, more generally, of the overall landscape of innovation. We believe it warrants more attention.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130116563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay","authors":"Joaquín Marandino, Phanindra V. Wunnava","doi":"10.3390/ECONOMIES5030035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ECONOMIES5030035","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effect of the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay [Plan Ceibal] on household labor income. Since 2007, the Uruguayan government has delivered one laptop to every child and every teacher in public primary schools. This program has considerably increased access to information technology within households since evidence shows that parents make use of the technology. Households in the department of Florida received laptops in 2007, while those in the department of Canelones received them in 2009. Therefore, using data from Household Surveys from the National Institute of Statistics in Uruguay, a difference-in-difference model is estimated to capture the effect of the plan of giving laptops on labor income [either total or hourly income]. The results indicate that there is a statistically significant positive effect of this plan on the labor income of those households below the median income. Such findings call for a plan that is more targeted to give laptops to low-income households, where parents possess less computer skills and the program has a greater potential.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121368835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interindustry Wage Differentials, Technology Adoption, and Job Polarization","authors":"Myungkyu Shim, Hee-Seung Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2474931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2474931","url":null,"abstract":"Based on observations that high-wage industries in 1980 experienced more evident job polarization between 1980 and 2009, we hypothesize that the persistent structure of interindustry wage differentials leads to heterogeneity in job polarization across industries; as the relative price of ICT capital declines, firms respond to exogenous wage differentials by replacing routine workers with capital. Our empirical analysis shows that, during the last three decades, the annualized growth rate of ICT capital per worker increased by 0.34 percent and that of routine employment decreased by 0.41 percent in the U.S. industries that paid 10 percent higher wages in 1980.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121256479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unemployment and Job Creation in a Prosperous Economy","authors":"Y. Kirsh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2827204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2827204","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the population in the Western world lives in prosperous societies today. However, Economics, according to its traditional definition, deals with allocation of resources in conditions of scarcity. Since the pressing problems nowadays are associated with abundance rather than with shortage, a new way of thinking is needed in order to cope with challenges which have not been experienced in previous eras. My purpose in the present article is to define the prosperous society and to discuss the phenomenon of technological unemployment in this society. I will argue that in order to describe and handle this sort of modern problem, new concepts and new economic models are needed.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116659037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dolan Antenucci, Michael J. Cafarella, Margaret C. Levenstein, C. Ré, M. Shapiro
{"title":"Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows","authors":"Dolan Antenucci, Michael J. Cafarella, Margaret C. Levenstein, C. Ré, M. Shapiro","doi":"10.3386/W20010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W20010","url":null,"abstract":"Social media enable promising new approaches to measuring economic activity and analyzing economic behavior at high frequency and in real time using information independent from standard survey and administrative sources. This paper uses data from Twitter to create indexes of job loss, job search, and job posting. Signals are derived by counting job-related phrases in Tweets such as \"lost my job.\" The social media indexes are constructed from the principal components of these signals. The University of Michigan Social Media Job Loss Index tracks initial claims for unemployment insurance at medium and high frequencies and predicts 15 to 20 percent of the variance of the prediction error of the consensus forecast for initial claims. The social media indexes provide real-time indicators of events such as Hurricane Sandy and the 2013 government shutdown. Comparing the job loss index with the search and posting indexes indicates that the Beveridge Curve has been shifting inward since 2011. The University of Michigan Social Media Job Loss index is update weekly and is available at http://econprediction.eecs.umich.edu/.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126163305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Dziechciarz, A. Grześkowiak, Agnieszka Stanimir
{"title":"Cross-National Correspondence Analysis of Generational Differences in the Perception of Work Conditions","authors":"J. Dziechciarz, A. Grześkowiak, Agnieszka Stanimir","doi":"10.15611/EKT.2014.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15611/EKT.2014.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to verify the hypothesis of the existence of generational differences in the perception of the conditions and quality of work. The research issues considered in this paper are chosen following the regularities observed in the labor markets indicating that special attention should be paid to two age groups: the youngest and the oldest persons. The highest unemployment rate in the EU is observed among young people who encounter various barriers at the beginning of their professional career. On the other hand, the older group of people is expected to provide an important contribution to the labor force to face the problem of aging societies. The objective labor market indicators should be confronted with the results of the subjective opinions of the labor market participants in order to have a comprehensive outlook of the situation. The chosen multivariate method is applied to analyze the opinions of both young and older Europeans taking into consideration the spatial diversity. The opinions about current work given by European Social Survey respondents are analyzed, among others these are the variety of current work, possibilities of learning new things at work, effort-salary relation, support received from other workers etc. The paper presents some results obtained from the applications of correspondence analysis whose usefulness is determined by the measurement scales of the regarded variables.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132494064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where are the Jobs in the Jobs Act? An Examination of the Uneasy Connection Between Securities Disclosure and Job Creation","authors":"Ian Peck","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2379707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2379707","url":null,"abstract":"The JOBS Act, passed in April 2012, is designed to produce American jobs through removing various regulatory barriers for small companies to access investor capital. As the regulations continue to be implemented, commentators have dissected the various ways in which the JOBS Act attempts to achieve this goal. One of the methods involves making the IPO process initially less burdensome, through scaling back financial and corporate governance disclosures. Crowdfunding, which will eventually permit companies to raise investor capital through an online “funding portal”, has garnered both deep criticism from regulators and praise from small business owners. Yet little attention has been paid to the notion that the very reason for disclosure reform is job creation. This matters because job creation has not historically played a direct role in the reform of securities disclosure statutes and regulations. This Article analyzes what role, if any, job creation should occupy in the reform of securities disclosure laws. After establishing the normative baseline for disclosure theory and reform, this Article highlights various unintended consequences of using job creation as a justification for reform and proposes a framework for understanding job creation-based disclosure reforms going forward.","PeriodicalId":216009,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Labor Economics (Topic)","volume":"735 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129125954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}