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, technological changes are creating new occupations and jobs as the demand for workers with requisite skills is rising. At the same … time, some existing jobs may be altered, reduced or eliminated. Therefore, besides assessing the extent of employment … supported by India's exports, it is also important to understand the skill composition of such jobs. In this regard, the present …
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The service sector is very heterogeneous with respect to internationalization; in some industries there is international trade (or it may potentially exist), whereas other industries are non-tradable. Data on international trade in services is, however, typically very limited, making it...
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In this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on fifteen … pushed natives towards more complex (abstract and communication) jobs. Such positive reallocation occurred while the total … number of jobs held by natives was unaffected. This job upgrade was associated in the short run to a 0.6% increase in native …
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hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers …
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CEOs of large firms filing for bankruptcy are more likely to exit the executive labor market after bankruptcy and experience substantial compensation losses (Eckbo et al., 2016). While the fear of reputational scarring can lead to lower risk-taking and manifest itself as lower rates of...
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Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence …
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In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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