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and a larger increase in the returns to education. We provide preliminary evidence in suport of the theory based on a …
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This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
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How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the …, increasing the overall prevalence of the culture of London, while also creating local identity holdouts by reducing out …
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection …
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Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the …
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We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...
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declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …
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rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …
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Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … Curve, no autoregression is found in wages. The paper casts doubt on standard ideas in macroeconomics, regional economics …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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