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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akcomak, Semih - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation by educating Dutch citizens without inducing animosity from the … of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city growth …
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...
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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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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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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E. - 2012
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann P. - 2014
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firmﾒs expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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ICT Skills and Employment : A Randomized Experiment
Blanco, Mariana - 2015
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and Bogota. Using cross-sectional data from an experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line...
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