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This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …
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The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and … unionisation does have a spillover effect lowering non-members' job satisfaction. Sub-group analysis based on workplace …
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dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor … supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group average. The demand for a good may also be influenced by either a spillover … effect or a conformity effect. Positive spillover increases the demand for the good with interactions, and a conformity …
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foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …
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We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover … similar choices as others. A positive spillover effect increases the demand for the good with interactions, and a conformity … implication is that spillover in consumption increases the associated derived demand for labor and conformity in consumption makes …
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We explore increases in the nominal minimum wage in a difference-in-differences setting to estimate match survival wage elasticity. The elasticity is negative and larger than one for matches directly affected by minimum wage increases, those with paying below the new minimum wage. The impact of...
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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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New growth models consider the role of technology in production. The link between product flows and information flows in international trade suggests investment in information technology as a leading sector in the developing countries growth. Several studies establish relationships between...
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