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Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand...
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Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than absolute welfare is non-existent in trade literature. In a simple HOS model we consider tax-transfer policies that keep the pre-trade degree of inequality unchanged between...
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with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General …
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findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills … of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection …
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This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …
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Community Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less … of employer-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the …
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side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … training. While there is little if any evidence in support of under-provision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …
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This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time. …
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