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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...

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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help

Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens' performance at school. The article develops firstly a theoretical model in which household (parent-child pair) is treated as an individual, whose utility depends both on the performance at school of the student...

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Interactions between Employment and Training Policies

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time...

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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of … project workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills from the micro to the regional level …

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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany

Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

fluent English skills are found. Returns to occupational use of other foreign languages are, if anything, restricted to a few … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …

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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...

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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs

Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and … respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two different skills (technological and systemic skills) and we are able to … show that it is not only the absolute skill level but also the aggregate distribution of different skills that drives …

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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing

Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of...

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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