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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
four different types of occupational groups: managers/professionals, clerical workers, craft (skilled) workers and manual … workers are affected the most, and native managers/professionals the least. Generally, offshoring exerts a stronger direct … workers and managers/professionals in the case of offshoring only. Finally, our analysis of the cross-effects of immigration …
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Labor market analysis using big data : the case of a Pakistani online job portal
Matsuda, Norihiko; Ahmed, Tutan; Nomura, Shinsaku - 2019
Facing a youth bulge-a large influx of a young labor force-the Pakistani economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of this relatively well-educated young labor force. Yet, the educated young labor force suffers a higher unemployment rate, and there is a concern that the current...
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The gender labor market gap in the digital economy
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019
Recent years have seen an ever-greater expansion of the digital economy, a development that may bring new opportunities to workers who were at a disadvantage in the traditional economy. We focus on a specific set of workers who belong to such a group: women. We study a skill set of particular...
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Do multiple school jobs affect teacher performance? : evidence from Brazil
Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana - 2019
Low salaries, a limited amount of full-time teaching positions, and alternative systems of allocating teaching hours lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific...
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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019
This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search closer to where they attended their Teacher Education...
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia
Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020
This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...
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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile
Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019
The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment (AEP, for its Spanish acronym) is a unique program in the region that provides monetary...
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2020
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