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R&D Internationalisation and the Global Financial Crisis
Dachs, Bernhard; Zahradnik, Georg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper asks if – and how – the global financial crisis of 2008/09 has affected overseas R&D activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Based on a data set of OECD countries, we find that the share of MNEs on total business R&D expenditure decreased for the first time since 2001 in...
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Internal Migration and Wage Differentials among Italian University Graduates
Di Cintio, Marco; Grassi, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we estimate wage differentials among Italian university Graduates three years after graduation due to sequential geographic mobility. By means of a matching procedure we quantify wage premia associated with the choice of studying far from home, moving after graduation and moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728046
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Optimal Time and Opportunity Cost of Job Search in Low-Income Groups: an Out-of-the-job Search Model
Todorova, Tamara; Dzharova, Veselina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
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Is there a producer quality wage premium similar to the exporter wage premium?
Hernández, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Exporter wage premium has been widely studied in the literature on international trade. The aim of this paper is analyze whether there is also a producer quality wage premium at firm level, and if so, analyze whether its origin is similar to the exporter wage premium. In other words, I test...
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Optimal foreign direct investment in the presence of human capital formation
Asali, Muhammad; Cristobal-Campoamor, Adolfo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper gives both theoretical arguments and econometric support to the notion of optimal FDI levels, from the … viewpoint of human-capital formation in the host country. The optimality of a limited FDI level depends on the local incentives … multinational and its potential workers. Our estimates confirm the significance of a negative, non-linear impact of FDI per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149386
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Mechanization, task assignment, and inequality
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Mechanization− the replacement by machines of humans engaged in production tasks− is a continuing process since the Industrial Revolution. As a result, humans have shifted to tasks machines cannot perform efficiently. The general trend until about the 1960s is the shift from manual tasks to...
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Technology and skill-upgrading: Results from linked worker-plant data for Finnish manufacturing
Vainiomäki, Jari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260527
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
At the heart of the Skill Biased Technical Change literature is a discussion of the temporal impact of technological change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks which enables capital to become more easily substituted...
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Skill bias, age and organizational change
O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109432
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Reassessing the Trends in the Relative Supply of College-Equivalent Workers in the U.S.: A Selection-Correction Approach
Elitas, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high and stable -- around 90 percent -- over time in the U.S. Among those with lower education levels, however, this fraction is much lower and considerably more volatile, moving within the range of...
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