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In this paper, we consider economies in which agents are privately informed about their skills, which are evolving …
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...
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The catchword ‘green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic … empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop … green technology. The present paper proposes a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in …
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mediated through employee decision-making and effort. To the extent that these practices are complementary with workers' skills …
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In traditional signaling models, education provides a way for individuals to sort themselves by ability. Employers in turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the same given level of education. In this paper, we provide...
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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.S. educational wage differentials. An increase in the rate of growth of the relative supply of skills associated with the high school …
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This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....
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relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of … skills, as well as on brain architecture and neurochemistry; that both skill development and brain maturation are …
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Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand...
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