Showing 1 - 10 of 140
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334973
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820735
employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274461
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274755
labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018127
We review the theoretical justification of consumption taxes in advanced economies, providing a systematic overview of the vast public finance literature exploring how goods and services should be taxed. Our discussion focuses on both the determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470297
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290284
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469796
We study the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across US commuting zones over the period 2000-2020. A simple model shows that AI can automate jobs or complement workers, and illustrates how to estimate its effect by exploiting variation in a novel measure of local exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469803
capacity utilization. Violence acts as a negative blue-collar labor supply shock, leading to significant increase in skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932095