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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data ontasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital tomeasure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility andwages show that labor...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...

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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledgeand Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, inaddition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, unionwage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship...<BR>

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...

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Offshoring and Unemployment

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … tooffshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (costreducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if thesearch cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …

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