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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias - 2020
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly …
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Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment : Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Firpo, Sergio - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2012
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as … embedded into the production function in such a way that they can complement to different inputs. By estimating the generalized … production function, we get estimates of TC which is decomposed TC into a pure time component as well as several producer …
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