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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

Fehr, Hans - 2005

China eventually becomes the world's saver and, thereby, the developed world's savoir with respect to its long-run supply of capital and long-run general equilibrium prospects. And, rather than seeing the real wage per unit of human capital fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by...

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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...

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The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996

This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled …, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and … German immigrants fared better than the Irish; literate immigrants in rapidly growing counties and places with many …

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What's Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects

Jha, Priyaranjan - 2024

Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation correlated with economic shocks generates spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs sharing a state border, they find no relationship...

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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Free vs. Controlled Migration : Bilateral Country Study

Razin, Assaf - 2011

This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …-country policy regimes in the effects of returns to skills on the skill mix of immigrants …

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of … immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large … Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum. The effects are also stronger when …

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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

inflows of highly educated immigrants were associated with a change in the vote of citizens away from nationalism. However the … inflow of less educated immigrants was positively associated with a vote shift towards nationalist positions. These effects … were stronger for non-tertiary educated voters and in response to non-European immigrants. We also show that they are …

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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Cohen, Alon - 2009

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds … for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system … arise because the skill composition of migration is itself affected by the generosity of the welfare state …

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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Cohen, Alon - 2008

The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop … composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill …

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