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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2016
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992629
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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
Hotz, V. Joseph; Xu, Lixin Colin; Tienda, Marta; … - 2021
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B.; Levy, Frank S. - 2022
larger impact on wages for 24-year-old men and women in 1986 than in 1978. For women, the increase in the return to cognitive …. We also show that high school seniors' mastery of basic cognitive skills had a much smaller impact on wages two years … after graduation than on wages six years after graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321572
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and wages for over seven million workers from sixteen Latin … with the skill premium at the industry level, a result that supports recent trade models linking exports with wages and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143455
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The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth
Bosler, Canyon - 2016
Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong—defying nearly all earlier projections—and has added 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984123
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The Requirements of Jobs : Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
Gittleman, Maury - 2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the environmental conditions in which the work is performed. Using pre-production data, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992662
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015
We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029024
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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153983
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Imposing Moment Restrictions from Auxiliary Data by Weighting
Imbens, Guido W.; Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2021
In this paper we analyze estimation of coefficients in regression models under moment restrictions where the moment … an application based on omitted ability bias in estimation of wage regressions. The National Longitudinal Survey Young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218741