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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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, and endogenous skill formation. High ability people acquire education and become skilled, those with intermediate …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …
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We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
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income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …
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