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This paper assesses the claim the the US faces an impending labor shortage due to the impending retirement of baby boomers and slow growth of the US work force, and that the country should orient labor market and educational policies to alleviate this prospective shortage. I find that this...
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universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated … off-shoring of IT jobs to India, growth of high-tech production in China, and multinational R&D facilities in developing …&E) workers are eroding US dominance in S&E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems …
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal and illegal immigrants to the country increased, altering the size and composition of the work force and substantially raising the immigrant share of...
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the centre of controversy as globalisation has proceeded. One reason is the belief that trade and capital flows have massive effects on the labour market - either positive, per the claims of international financial institutions and free...
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied with individual performance-related pay, we here demonstrate a robust positive link between the...
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