Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …

income security of government employment and expected wage changes in the labor market, offers the best approach to civil …

graduate labor market in Ghana. The problem has been compounded by the increasing number of liberal arts graduates coming out … every year to join an already saturated labor market. The problem has become so serious that no concerned Ghanaian can … received by the graduates; and the types of skills and qualifications needed in the graduate labor market.The present study …

premium is examined from the aspect of differential labor quality--the positive relation between firm size and the quality of … labor. The study begins with a critical inquiry as to why large firms demand more able workers. Two dimensions relating to … intensity, technology intensity, and R & D intensity, the greater are its demands for quality labor, positing complementarity …

the two papers presented in the following chapters.The paper in the second chapter contributes to the labor …-macro literature. More specifically, I develop a general equilibrium model with labor market search and matching frictions, endogenous … labor force participation and on-the-job search, which can replicate the labor market dynamics observed in the U.S. data …

. The first chapter studies the effects of labor market frictions and credit constraints in an economy with self … stopgap. I show that labor market frictions generate a motive not to transition into self-employment, by making selfemployment … an effect on entrepreneurship if and only if it affects an entrepreneur's capacity to manage workers. When labor market …