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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile

Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021

The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...

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Skilled Worker Migration and Trade : Inequality and Welfare

Bougheas, Spiros P. - 2011

We develop a two-sector, two-country model where trade is driven by technological differences. Each country is populated by large number of heterogeneous workers distinguished by their level of skills. Given that one country has a technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we...

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Green Skills

Vona, Francesco - 2015

The catchword ‘green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...

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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies

Djajic, Slobodan - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...

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Does Importing Intermediates Increase the Demand for Skilled Workers? Plant-Level Evidence from Indonesia

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Liang, Yawen; Rodrigue, Joel - 2021

This paper examines whether importing has contributed to skill upgrading among Indonesian plants. Our data records the distribution of years of employee schooling in each plant. We examine how importing affects the demand for highly educated workers within both production and non-production...

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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam

Barslund Fosse, Henrik - 2011

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Jantti, Markus - 2013

equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam …

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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam

Thanh, Thuy Vu - 2012

formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of Vietnam. This paper finds that the formally decentralized system …

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