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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … channels, on internal income distribution, international income convergence and on whether migration and trade are substitutes … question is whether or not technology is convex. Generally, under substitutability between trade and migration and with convex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128
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Openness and Technological Innovationsin Developing Countries:Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862588
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776490
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Immigration and Outsourcing : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2007
This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms in response to market conditions and through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778661
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146470
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Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2020
We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by the formal sector to the lower wage informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in...
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants : A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074200
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Wage Mobility in Israel : The Effect of Sectoral Concentration
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2006
Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...
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From Golden Age to Golden Age : Australia's 'Great Leap Forward'?
Gregory, Robert - 2006
The twenty-five years after WW2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes - high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
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