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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
Bombardini, Matilde; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Pupato, Germán - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
skills in the labor force can play a role in the determination of trade flows. We develop a multi-country, multi-sector model …' skills, (ii) the dispersion of skills in the working population. First, we show how higher dispersion in human capital can … trigger specialization in sectors characterized by higher substitutability among workers' skills. We then use industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055445
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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Falcao, Bruno L. S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage-gap are generated as part of a single process of demographic transition, characterized by reductions in mortality and fertility. The paper suggests a link between changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088850
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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
Gittleman, Maury; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821983
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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
Atkin, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across municipalities to show that school dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674282
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific research from advanced to developing countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821812
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559870
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The Effect of Mandated Child Care on Female Wages in Chile
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in Chile. We use a unique employer-employee database from the country's unemployment insurance (UI) system containing monthly information for all individuals that started a new...
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Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?
Edmonds, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
From 1993 to 1997, GDP per capita in Vietnam grew by between 6 and 7 percent annually. Child labor declined by 28 percent over this period. Using a simple, nonparametric decomposition, I investigate the relationship between improvements in per capita expenditure and child labor with a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714370
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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G.; Lange, Fabian; Bharadwaj, Prashant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
changes in the distribution of observable skills affect employment and wages. We also use more standard regression methods to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829509