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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies Under Skill-Biased Technical Change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2021

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...

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Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement

Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2022

When workers are displaced from their jobs in mass layoffs or firm closures, they experience lasting adverse labor market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when returning to the labor market. Using novel measures of skill...

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Skill Formation, Temporary Disadvantage and Elite Education

Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2021

Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skillformation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This “underdog-incentive effect” implies that “educated...

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Decomposing Migrant Self-Selection : Education, Occupation, and Unobserved Abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

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The Value of Early-Career Skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 and 2010, and investigates the underlying mechanism. We present district-level and firm-level estimates and address endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share...

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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

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