lower wages in the beginning of their career. Later they earn a return on these implicit investments through higher wages …

account for individual differences in young adults' capacities to acquire such skills and be productive in the work force …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …

increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using …-specific productivity, we find that the premium paid to workers at exporting firms is economically and statistically insignificant, as is … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …&D spillovers are partly determined by firms, rather than by the given economic environment. According to this approach the full …' response of firms to new information. Furthermore, effective spillovers grow faster or slower than potential spillovers …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

We study how cross-country macroeconomic spillovers caused by sovereign default affect equilibrium bailouts. Because of …

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in …-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a distinction between productivity gains that enhance manufacturing efficiency … the international welfare spillovers depends on terms of trade, but also on consumers' taste for variety. Higher domestic …