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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive paths for skill-biased technical change (SBTC), and does not account for the … mis-measurement of relative skill prices and supplies (based on standard demographic composition-adjustments) and by …
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Trade Flows, Private Credit and the COVID-19-Pandemic : Panel Evidence from 35 OECD Countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2021
the 2019Q1-2021Q2 period using a dynamic panel approach, specifically the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314689
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga - 2019
' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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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 …
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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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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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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …
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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities : Evidence from US-Listed Companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2022
Corporate tax avoidance has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. Yet, systematic evidence on this matter is still lacking. To fill this gap, the present paper explores the effect of profit shifting on employee pay among S&P 1500 companies. The study shows that its effect...
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Inequality and Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...
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How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country : Evidence from Thai Tax Returns
Muthitacharoen, Athiphat; Burong, Trongwut - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
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