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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
larger effects. H-1Bs substantially crowd out employment of other workers. We find some evidence that additional H-1Bs lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196772
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Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions
Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first is that the decline in the workforce was not random, and that the average worker was of higher quality during the recession than in the preceding period. The second is that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969215
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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence for the US
Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887107
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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth
Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, "We can know more than we can tell... The skill of a driver cannot … robotics should shape our thinking about the likely trajectory of occupational change and employment growth. A key observation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951336
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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
that skill-biased technological change is an important factor in de-unionization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271477
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Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H.; Unel, Bulent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
and skill-biased technological change, we employ CPS data to create state-year as well as state-year-and (broad) industry … specific measures of skill-biased technological change, which are then used as instruments for unskilled workers' earnings in … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368131
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Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium
Meghir, Costas; Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607944
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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631108
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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years
van Reenen, John; Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
OECD labor markets have become more "polarized" with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling … relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and … technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635922
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Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive … measures of skill reveal that advanced technology interacts with each component of skill quite differently: firms that use …We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714274