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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154267
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Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills
Caron, Justin - 2017
Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled … trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand interacted with factor intensities in production. We explore how … income growth and trade liberalization influence the demand for skilled labor when preferences are non-homothetic and income …
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Trade, Inequality and Distribution-Neutral Fiscal Policy – An Elementary Framework
Marjit, Sugata - 2017
-trade degree of inequality unchanged between skilled and unskilled workers rather than the absolute income of the losing group. We …
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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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Finance, Talent Allocation, and Growth
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2018
The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...
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