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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003

skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … theories of the increased wage skill premium and then evaluates three main hypotheses: skill-biased technological change, the …

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...

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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2008

general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the model's key parameters show that the rising management premium is … sources such as technological progress and skill-biased technological change are taken into account. We also show that a …

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes: routine …

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Labour market institutions and the personal distribution of income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; Peñalosa, Cecilia García - 2005

differentials, a higher labour share, and also higher unemployment. We then use a panel of OECD countries for the period 1970-96 to …

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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How general is human capital? A task-based approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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