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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution : a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers ('brain-drain') while … ; brain-drain ; regional economies …
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International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain
Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2011
We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...
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Who leaves and who returns? : Deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall (contributor) - 2007
Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants' labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home...
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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...
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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023
We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...
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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2006
workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complementary to unskilled workers … evidence consistent with this view based on an industry panel for West Germany and the US between the 1970s and 1990s. We show … that capital equipment per worker is less positively associated with the wage differential in West Germany than in the US …
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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