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We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare … have similar transition rates. Finally, if education signals are acquired in Germany, the differences between all three …
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periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax …The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two … instruments. The mobility does not however affect second best education policy in allocational terms. In particular, education …
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There is an increasing trend in the pattern of world migration of educated and skilled individuals leaving developing countries for developed ones. This has created much concern about a so-called “brain drain”. As the name suggests, the brain drain was believed by early commentators to be...
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This paper develops a model of optimal education choice of an agent who has an option to emigrate. Using a real options …
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How do skilled migrant workers affect firms' performance and output? I estimate the causal effect of EU nurse withdrawal after the Brexit referendum on the performance of English hospitals. Exploiting variation in the reliance on EU workers across hospital providers in pre-referendum years, I...
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Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
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Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
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education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income …
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strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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analyses the impact of the EQF on education, skills, migration and the economic growth by performing a conceptual analysis and … European Commission. Whereas education is the main driver of the upward skill mobility, migration drives the spatial skill …
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