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18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...
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This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
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shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
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workplace characteristics as well as occupational information relating to the degree of offshorability with industry-level data …
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We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
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causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study … studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true …
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permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …
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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training … Kaitz index. I also find evidence that individuals with more education and limited labor market experience enjoy higher …
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market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
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