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educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
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educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764642
We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840993
, Australia, Switzerland) in its ability to attract immigrants from outside (for all skills levels). 3) While typical immigration …
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educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507409
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
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