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Out of sight, out of mind : migration, entrepreneurship and social capital

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009

-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …

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Solow and heterogeneous labor : a neoclassical explanation of wage inequality

Meckl, Jürgen; Zink, Stefan - 2002

The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...

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Corporate training and skill gaps : did COVID-19 stem EU convergence in training investments?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database of migrant stocks, grouped by education level and country of origin/destination, for the years...

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ICT skills and employment : a randomized experiment

Blanco, Mariana; López Bóo, Florencia - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and Bogota. Using cross-sectional data from an experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line...

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Heterogeneity of skill needs and job complexity : evidence from the OECD PIAAC survey

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015

We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...

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Heaven's swing door : endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic...

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