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This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents … converged somewhat during this period. In addition, we study the correlates of low-intensity immigration in Chile. Regions with …
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district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …
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Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records,...
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the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …
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In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate … of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the …
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We characterize intertemporal utility functions over heterogeneous goods that feature (i) a constant elasticity of substitution between goods at each point in time and (ii) a constant intertemporal elasticity of substitution for at least one of the goods. We find that a standard (stationary)...
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