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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017

engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level … in engineers in 1880 accounts for a 16% increase in US county income today, and patenting capacity contributes another 10 … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

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Can online delivery increase access to education?

Goodman, Joshua S.; Melkers, Julia; Pallais, Amanda - 2017

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing formal...

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Globalisation and the decoupling of inflation from domestic labour costs

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021

We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is that the short-run pass-through from domestic labour cost changes to core CPI...

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Cheating in labour markets

Drouvelis, Michalis; Kocher, Martin - 2021

Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in the absence of monitoring (cheating is possible)...

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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.

De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019

Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...

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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock

Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...

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The rise of generative AI : modelling exposure, substitution, and inequality effects on the US labour market

Auer, Raphael A.; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024

How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...

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Demographic change and regional labour markets : the case of Eastern Germany

Henschel, Beate (contributor); Pohl, Carsten (contributor); … - 2008

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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2009

We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...

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