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Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Mexico. While cognitive test scores account for a limited share of the height premium, roughly half of the premium can be …
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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116038
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
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Border Walls
Allen, Treb - 2018
What are the economic impacts of a border wall between the United States and Mexico? We use detailed data on bilateral … wall between the United States and Mexico from 2007 to 2010 affected migration. We use these effects to estimate a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907757
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Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?
Bernard, Andrew B.; Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though … industries. This heterogeneity helps to both undermine Mexico's aggregate labor abundance and motivate behavior that is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233769
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Self-Selection and International Migration : New Evidence from Mexico
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147596
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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022
In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the … United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test ….S. natives, are on average more educated than residents of Mexico, and 2) were Mexican immigrants in the United States to be paid …
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on the skill premium in skill-abundant and skill-scarce countries. The key mechanisms in our framework arise from the interaction between three elements: cross-country differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137021
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118247
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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
To study the short-run and long-run implications on wage inequality, we introduce directed technical change into a Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced from a continuum of intermediates (tasks). Some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096853