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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011
Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one … fixed effects. We show adding human capital variables and the wage bill decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity … quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. The productivity dispersion decrease is …
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The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage : An Educational Cascade
Sutch, Richard C. - 2010
attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …
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The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth
Bosler, Canyon - 2016
around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add … considerably less and may even be a drag on productivity growth in the medium term. Using a variety of methods, we project that …
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Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity : Theory and Evidence from U.S. States
Iranzo, Susana - 2010
The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...
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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality and skill-biased technological change, we employ CPS data to create state-year as well as state-year-and (broad) industry specific measures of skill-biased technological...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills
Brambilla, Irene - 2015
This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for...
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Comparative Advantage and Unemployment
Bils, Mark - 2010
We model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative advantage are identified by who works more hours when employed. This enables us to test the model by grouping workers based on their long-term wages and hours from panel data. The...
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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives : A Reappraisal
Borjas, George J. - 2008
In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...
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