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Brain Drain, Inequality and Growth
Fabio, MARIANI - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004
This paper provides an additional channel through which inequality may influence growth, when labor migration is taken into account. In fact, we show that human capital distribution is crucial to determine whether allowing migration of the most skilled workers from a developing country may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984917
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Customer Discrimination and Employment OUtcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
COMBES, Pierre-Philippe; DECREUSE, Bruno; LAOUENAN, Morgane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specifc preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690402
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"Hate at First Sight": Evidence of Consumer Discrimination Against African-Americans in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
The paper runs the customer discrimination test provided by Combes et al. (2013) on US data. This test is based on a two-sector matching model with racial sector-specific preferences or abilities, employer discrimination and customer discrimination. The strategy makes it possible to disentangle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714112
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The Political Economy of Immigrants Naturalization
Fabio, MARIANI - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004
be granted to foreign-born workers. This choice is driven by the maximization of th net gains from immigration. We focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985338
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
DOCQUIER, Frederic; OZDEN, Çaglar; PERI, Giovanni - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
by education level for the years 1990 through 2000. We find that all European countries experienced a decrease in their … average wages and a worsening of their wage inequality because of emigration. Whereas, immigration had nearly equal but … economic outcomes, it follows that prevalent public fears in European countries are misplaced; immigration has had a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838086
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence From a Field Experiment
BAERT, Stijn; COCKX, Baert; GHEYLE, Niels; VANDAMME, Cora - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607574
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Productivity, Social Interaction and Communication
SAINT-PAUL, Gilles - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002
In this paper, we study how, depending on the sociological and technological characteristics of the economy, a "unified" or, on the contrary, a stratified way of communicating may émerge. Communication takes place less efficiently in the stratified case, because people who spend différent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985413
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Brain Drain, R&D-Cost Differentials and the Innovation Gap
MARIANI, Fabio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505597
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Endogenous Versus Exogenous Growth Facing a Fertility Shock
Medeiros, João - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2000
growth OLG models. An endogenous growth model, with education as the engine of growth, dampens the negative impact of a … decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985272
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Assessing education's contribution to productivity using firm-level evidence
LEBEDINSKI, Lara; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists …, analysing cross-country time series, also support the idea that the continuous expansion of education has contributed positively … the education-productivity-wage nexus. And the few published works considering firm-level evidence are lacking a proper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690401