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Math matters: Education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

, math-heavy college majors and highly quantitative occupations. We develop a general equilibrium model with multiple …

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The Palestinian labor market over the last three decades

Hallaq, Sameh - 2020

This paper consists of three economic literature review essays that survey the Palestinian labor market during the last three decades. The first essay examines the economic return to schooling since 1981 until the recent period, taking into consideration the major shocks that the Palestinian...

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Minimum wage reform and firms' performance - Evidence from North Macedonia

Jovanovic, Biljana; Naumovski, Nikola - 2021

Minimum wage is an important redistributive tool and an important element of the employment strategies and social policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality. Even though the social dimension of the minimum wage concept is unquestionable, it also provokes frequent debates and...

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Routinization, Within-Occupation Task Changes and Long-Run Employment Dynamics

Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2022

Information Network. We show that within-occupation reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in … routine-task use; ii) accelerates in the 1990s, decelerates in the 2000s but with significant convergence across occupations …

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Skills and human capital for the low-carbon transition in developing and emerging economies

Vona, Francesco - 2023

Developing and emerging economies face enormous challenges to reconcile economic development and job creation with decarbonization. An essential aspect of such "early-stage" decoupling of growth and carbon emissions is to develop a skill base that favours the diffusion of green productions and...

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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

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Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline

Hernäs, Sofia - 2023

despair: deaths caused by alcohol, drug or suicide. I find that workers who in 1985 worked in occupations that subsequently …-declining occupations. For men in declining occupations, the risk of death by cardio-vascular disease was 7-14 percent elevated, while women … in declining occupations faced 31-37 percent higher risk of death by despair. The risk was higher for workers who were …

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Individual consequences of occupational decline

Edin, Per-Anders; Evans, Tiernan; Graetz, Georg; … - 2019

We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...

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Comparative advantage and risk premia in labor markets

Cubas, German; Silos, Pedro - 2012

Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we document a significant and positive association between earnings risk (both permanent and transitory) and the level of earnings across 21 industries. We propose an equilibrium framework to analyze the interplay between earnings...

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Decomposing the education wage gap: Everything but the kitchen sink

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Shiferaw, Menbere - 2010

This paper contributes to a large literature concerned with identifying the source of the widening wage gap between high school and college graduates by providing a comprehensive, multidimensional decomposition of wages across both time and educational status. Data from a multitude of sources...

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