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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
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People and Machines : A Look at the Evolving Relationship between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016276
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159511
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Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions : Modeling Regional Heterogeneity
de Graaff, Thomas - 2017
Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is scrutinized at the regional level. We focus on modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957483
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029621
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137516
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Employer Learning and the 'Importance' of Skills
Light, Audrey - 2012
We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores to measure seven distinct types of pre-market skills that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104945
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind : Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154977
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...
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