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immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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In this paper we revisit the influential theory of monopolistic competition and optimum product variety as developed by Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable costs of production in terms of underlying use of...
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We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite stable over the years. While there is limited amount of...
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Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …
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experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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We propose a novel framework that integrates the "task approach" for a more precise production modeling into the search-and-matching model with low- and high-skilled workers, and wage setting by labor unions. We establish the relationship between task reallocation and changes in wage pressure,...
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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short …
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This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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