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This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with...
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equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … quickens the migration of raw labour towards the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw …
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This paper studies, in a model with unemployment, how labour market status affects the preferences for public spending … that high unemployment may destroy the existence of a voting equilibrium. …
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This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703282
This Paper uses US Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labour market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are over-represented compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667016
equilibrium, thus generating unemployment in the East. This slows the migration of human capital toward the East but quickens the … migration of raw labor toward the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the Western region. Unions … in the West will benefit from this provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw labor …
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This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are over-represented compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319042
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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