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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830793
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
increasing the productivity of less-skilled workers, thus implying less skill-biased technical change in Europe than in the U.S. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588986
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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China
Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...
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The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium
Aldy, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of these events on Gulf Coast employment and wages. Despite … coastal parishes, and oil-intensive parishes in particular, experienced a net increase in employment and wages. In contrast …
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International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John; Konings, Josef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an …
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Moreau, Antoine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084858
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Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers
Lehrer, Steven; Pereira, Nuno Sousa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085259
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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H.; Markusen, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal … experiments are considered. First, we show that trade liberalization under minimum wages differs significantly from trade … marginal and average firm productivity are reversed in our model, yet there are significant gains from trade arising from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087447
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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...
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