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Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin
Bertoli, Simone - 2010
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more selective immigration policies reduce social...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
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 in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
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Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
Mueller, Andreas I. - 2012
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using micro-data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1962-2011, it documents that in...
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Skilled Labor Supply, It-Based Technical Change and Job Instability
Behaghel, Luc - 2012
strategies in order to meet the new skills requirement associated with IT diffusion …
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Employer Learning and the 'Importance' of Skills
Light, Audrey - 2012
seven distinct types of pre-market skills that employers cannot readily observe, and O*NET importance scores to measure the … some skills, increased importance leads to more screening and less learning; for others, the opposite is true. Our evidence …
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The … model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers … self-select the type of skills to supply and firms assign workers to tasks/machines. Equilibrium is characterized by two …
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