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Becker meets Ricardo: Multisector matching with social and cognitive skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012
individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?
Silva, Olmo - 2006
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267719
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate convincing examples of … ?skill-weights? view, allows all skills to be general in that there are other firms that use the each of the skills. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261549
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more differentiated survey of the skill endowments of workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268182
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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: an analysis using REFLEX data
McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...
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Trade openness and the demand for skills: evidence from Turkish microdata
Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2008
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...
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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
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Stuck between surplus and shortage: demand for skills in the Russian industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
by rapid growth, or are they still struggling with employment overhang? What are the occupations and skills in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274404
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 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...
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