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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108468
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Performance of Young Adults : The Importance of Different Skills
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills …. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a … novel measure for another type of skills: Performance in behavioral and practical subjects. Using individual register data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086043
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Heterogeneous Workers, Trade, and Migration
Heiland, Inga - 2013
differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms …
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951557
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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
Patt, Alexander - 2017
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 higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951826
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Israel's High Fertility Rate and Anemic Skill Acquisition
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The exceptionally high fertility among ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Arab minority, increasing portions of the population, is the main reason for Israel's flagging labor-force participation. In addition, high fertility diminishes Israel's skill attainment of the labor force. A rise in income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955195
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955283
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054317
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019852