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This paper studies the short and medium run impact of highly skilled immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants'...
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subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
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the twin suppositions that employers of apprentices are uniformly high contributors to skill formation, and that high … training-related costs risks generally deter their participation. Differences in training behaviour are attributed to high-skill … versus low-skill business strategies that in turn reflect differing product markets and regulatory constraints. Whatever the …
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skill bias, the new technology is bearing a strong polarization between educated worker, not always employed in high skilled …
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Commentators claim that a shortage of skills in South Africa is constraining output and that a rise in skill supply …
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, the theoretical and policy debate largely revolves around the role ICT play in the structural dynamics of the labour … effect of ICT remains elusive. This report provides an overview of current perspectives on the employment impact of ICT. The … employment and ICT. This assessment is needed in order to capture the full complexity of the factors influencing this relation …
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This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution … evidence, a consensus regarding the employment effect of ICT remains elusive. While there are many empirical studies on … technological progress in general, few are based on specific ICT indicators. Our review devotes equal space to each mainstream …
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