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Industry-Specific Human Capital and Wages : Evidence from the Business Process Outsourcing Industry
Kim, Keongtae; Mithas, Sunil; Whitaker, Jonathan; Roy, … - 2019
further research and practice in the global economy where inter-industry transfers and migration of skills are becoming …
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Human Capital Investment After the Storm
Billings, Stephen B. - 2020
We provide a novel test for the impact of wealth-destroying natural disasters on college decisions using Hurricane Harvey (Aug-Sep 2017). First, we compare enrollment and graduation outcomes at Texas public universities and colleges according to their student share from disaster-affected...
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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education
Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022
We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...
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"Writes a fair hand and appears to be well qualified" : the recruitment of Bank of England clerks, 1800 - 1815
Murphy, Anne L. - In: Financial history review 22 (2015) 1, pp. 19-44
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Governments, airlines and employees : an evolving relationship from 1940 to 2010
Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph - In: Management & organizational history : MOH 10 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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Access all areas? : the impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - 2013
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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States
McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011
We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
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