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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies

Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); … - 2008

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...

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Gender gaps across countries and skills : supply, demand and the industry structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Skill based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2012

Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...

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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …

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Trade imbalances, export structure and wage inequality

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 576, pp. 507-539

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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour

Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce …

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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