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Changes in hours fluctuations since the mid1980s : what happened to middle-skilled workers?

Shim, Myung-Kyu; Yang, Hee-Seung - 2019

We find that changes in hours volatilities since the mid-1980s have been more favorable for middle-skilled workers relative to high-skilled and low-skilled workers. In particular, the relative standard deviation of detrended employment of middle-skilled workers to high-skilled workers has...

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Skilled immigration and the employment structures of US firms

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2013

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...

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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...

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The price of experience

Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012

We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, the large movements of the return to experience over the last four decades are almost perfectly...

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Globalisation in services : from measurement to analysis

Bensidoun, Isabelle (contributor); … - 2008

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Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries : towards more harmonised national accounts

Pionnier, Pierre-Alain; Guidetti, Emmanuelle - 2015

of certain types of self-employed workers to the corporations’ sector of some countries, most notably Germany and Italy … and impute a labour compensation to self-employed workers for international comparisons. Profit shares in France, Germany … claim of a global increase in the profit share in the last decades is at best debatable for Germany and not backed with the …

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Trust and its determinants : evidence from the Trustlab experiment

Murtin, Fabrice; Fleischer, Lara; Siegerink, Vincent; … - 2018

November 2016 and November 2017 (France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Slovenia and the United States). Trustlab combines cutting …

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