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Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...

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Globalization : a woman's best friend? : exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

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Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296874

Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010

In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...

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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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Are jobs more polarized in ICT firms?

Böckerman, Petri; Laaksonen, Seppo; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2016

We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch-Röcker, Alexandra; Wiederhold, … - 2016

19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across … for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …

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