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Occupational choice, aggregate productivity, and trade
Meckl, Jürgen; Weigert, Benjamin - 2011
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230184
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What can we learn about the decline in US union membership from international data?
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800148
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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401056
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Industrialization in China
Brandt, Loren; Ma, Debin; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2016
We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened … seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor …-intensive products and processes. China's experience shows that government can both support and obstruct this process. Our review of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517939
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Structural transformation and income distribution : kuznets and beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631507
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The effects of FDI liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change : evidence from China
Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023
How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250561
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Wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands 1999 - 2003
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Kriechel, Ben (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608327
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Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2011
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308050
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Sorting between and within industries : a testable model of assortative matching
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - 2014
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403442
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Robots at work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501865