We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … rates suggest that China will become the dominant trade partner for Brazil surprisingly soon. …

exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …

This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … skilled workers. Given the increasing mobility of labour, especially of high-skilled people and expatriates, it is interesting … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …

or executive managers, have to be assigned to temporary projects. In firms with many employees and various different …-incentive trade-offs. Moreover, taxation can alter the assignment decision, especially if employees are sent abroad as expatriates so … expatriates have only little effects on the optimal assignment decision. …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …

Community Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less … of employer-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the …

training. While there is little if any evidence in support of under-provision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …