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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2017

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...

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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro - 2015

common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough …

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Agency in Family Policy : A Survey

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010

Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country : An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142234

Agency in Family Policy: A Survey

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009

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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents

Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...

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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2015

common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough …

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Innovation Network

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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