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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile …
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …
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accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance …
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-specific skills. Labor income is a combination of endogenous occupational wages and idiosyncratic shock. Occupational reallocation and … its impact on the economy depend on the transferability of workers' skills across occupations and occupational …
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A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...
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We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential changes in the labor market. The analysis is performed in the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous...
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We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
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employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these general-purpose intellectual skills, despite a … general intellectual skills. Conversely, growing low-wage occupations are more (intellectually) skill-intensive than other low … social maturity. Existing occupational projections imply that the relationship between employment growth and skills in the …
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This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
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technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the …
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