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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration

Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Mendes, Rute (contributor); … - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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This job is "getting old" : measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Do the higher educated unemployed crowd out the lower educated ones in a competition for jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002

This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between workers with different schooling levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use flow data out of unemployment containing information on...

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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : first evidence from linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Skills, workforce characteristics and firm-level productivity : evidence from the matched ABI/employer skills survey

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando (contributor); … - 2005

We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business Inquiry and Employer Skills Survey for England. We first examine the effect of workplace skills and other characteristics such as part-time status and gender on both productivity and...

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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022

early life interventions, intergenerational mobility, parental investments, fertility, health care provisionAAn important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input...

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