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Immigrant Earnings Change: The Importance of Australian Schooling.
Will, L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977266
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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high …, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without … international capital mobility in first global century and today, that is, the second global century. The paper then explores the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656429
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto F; Giuliano, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083676
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Employment, Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Job Security
Díaz-Vázquez, María del Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence depends on the persistence of the macroeconomic fluctuations to which the labour market is exposed, and on employees’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124142
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Why People Don't Find Work
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper provides a brief, non-technical survey of the major theories about why people remain unemployed. The aim is to provide a macroeconomic perspective on the microeconomic problem of why people don't find work. The first section deals with market-clearing theories: the natural rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497987
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A Theory of Defensive Skill-based Innovation and Globalization
Thoenig, Mathias; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper considers a dynamic model of innovations in which firms can endogenously bias the direction of technological change. Both in a North-North and North-South context, we show that, when globalization triggers an increased threat of technological leapfrogging or imitation, firms tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067552
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Inequality, Technology and the Social Contract
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyse these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661547
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Who Wants To Revise Privatization? The Complementarity of Market Skills and Institutions
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using survey data from 28 transition countries, we test for the complementarity and substitutability of market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666546
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Labour Mobility During Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136748
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Integration, Agglomeration and the Political Economics of Factor Mobility
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
mobility by the two groups of workers sustains the second best optimum. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504229