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implications. Investment in skills, technology use, and participation in global value chains are key factors for work content and …
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This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points towards an...
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …
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This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...
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This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa … skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model …; investing in the quality of human capital; and promoting intraregional skills mobility …
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We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and …
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governments and scholars alike. This paper aims to explore the impact migration from Nigeria has on economic output growth by … focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population growth and secondary school enrolment. This has not received adequate …/methodology/approach Leveraging on the macro-level approach to migration, remittances and the economy, this research considers the nexus among the …
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classroom assignment and parental migration for employment. We find that having disadvantaged peers significantly lowers …, we find suggestive evidence that these effects are driven by the peers' personality skills. …
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classroom assignment and parental migration for employment. We find that having disadvantaged peers significantly lowers …, we find suggestive evidence that these effects are driven by the peers' personality skills. …
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