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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...
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skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …
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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … substitutes for bilateral migrants. Our findings suggest that immigrants facilitate outgoing FDI through their language skills …
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This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...
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costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of … destination. We also find that the return premium increases with migrants' skills and this drives the positive selection of … Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages …
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behavior and life style, expectations about the future and socio-emotional skills. In terms of labor market outcomes, the …-cognitive skills as measured by three different scales. Scores improve between 0.08 and 0.16 standard deviations with the program …. Although recent progress noted in the literature suggests that socio-emotional skills increase employability and quality of …
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We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality, considering three job characteristics: occupation, industry, and firm ownership. The explanatory power of job structure for wage inequality increased...
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As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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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...
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