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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

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Returns to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the Firm

Dostie, Benoit; Trépanier, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that computer use will lead to productivity gains only if the firm uses an appropriate set of organizational practices. Detailed data on organizational practices and workers’ compensation are obtained through a Canadian longitudinal linked...

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...

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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical...

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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...

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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can improve the trade-off between equality and incentives by changing the amount of observable human capital. We provide an intuitive decomposition for the wedge between human-capital...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...

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