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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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The returns to English-language skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372

Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004

In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...

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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004

In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...

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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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