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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in …
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254299
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Full Employment : A Distant Dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit S. - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform.There are...
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Public Employment Redux
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906506
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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
Blanchflower, David G. - 2009
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...
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The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain : A Preliminary Analysis
Chatterji, Monojit; Mumford, Karen - 2021
Relative employment conditions have changed across the public and private sectors in Britain over the last decade with the former becoming a more attractive earnings option. Using new linked employee-employer data for Britain in 2004, this paper shows that, on average, full-time male public...
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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957484
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2017
and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory, high wage increases for promotion are associated with better …
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