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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled...
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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002
The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti-global backlash. This lecture reports what we know about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469549
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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1997
If we have learned anything from the recent outpouring of empirical growth equations is that life is far too complex to expect unconditional' convergence among all countries and at" all times. This fact motivates two questions. First, why has it taken economists so long to learn" the same lesson...
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Blau, Francine D. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460146
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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
Berman, Eli - 2000
a return to tenure about three percentage points higher than that of natives; improved Hebrew language skills account …We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471013
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2006
largely orthogonal. Therefore earlier work on the importance of knowledge of the host-country language (Hebrew) does not …. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466200
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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities
Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …
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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
Berman, Eli - 2000
Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which parents bear migration costs and children share returns. Migrants from a population with heterogeneous intergenerational discount rates will be self-selected on intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471230
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Wives' Labor Force Participation, Wage Differentials and Family Income Inequality : The Israeli Experience
GRonau, Reuben - 1981
Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. The paper investigates the effect of wives' earnings on family income distribution. This effect depends on the in-equality of women's earnings as compared with other sources of income, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478453
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Israel’s Immigration Story : Winners and Losers
Razin, Assaf - 2018
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large high skilled cohort, and its quick integration into the domestic labor market. Immigration also changed the entire economic landscape: it raised productivity, underpinned by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453431