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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement in 2004, a large share of the workforce of the Central and Eastern Europe emigrated to Western Europe. Using data from Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376066
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Immigration and national wages : clarifying the theory and the empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008
evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796285
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. -- Employment … ; Production tasks ; Immigrants ; Offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747717
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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation : a European perspective
Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628072
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Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009
The strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or … investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows …, and if they are useful in increasing immigrants' likelihood of employment. The empirical analysis has been conducted using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810982
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234630
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Horizontal and vertical polarization : task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy
Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019
We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037309
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585846
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates
Euwals, Rob (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have longer first-job durations but not higher wages than...
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