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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997459
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Diverse Organizations and the Competition for Talent
Eeckhout, Jan - 2014
broader range of skills. Technological progress leads to an increase of all wages and results in downsizing. Quantifying … differ in their skill composition. Organizations with higher Total Factor Productivity (TFP) are larger and hire from a … productivity using our model shows that a CES production function generates unbiased estimates of TFP but biased estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069173
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … the local economy depends on these skills. We emphasize that to evaluate correctly such impact, we also need to understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025309
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Organizational Justice and Antidiscrimination
Areheart, Bradley A. - 2020
Despite eighty years of governmental interventions, the legal system has proven ill-equipped to address workplace discrimination. Potential plaintiffs are reluctant to file discrimination claims for a host of social and economic reasons, and the relatively few who do file face steep structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032199
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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Theodoropoulos, … - 2003
proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees? wages should also increase with the concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261544
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709811
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Do Employers Pay for Consistent Performance? : Evidence from the NBA
Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Brastow, Raymond T. - 1998
In a world of uncertainty in which a worker's performance is variable over time and average performance is unknown when hiring, how will employers determine compensation? We develop a monitoring and signaling model where information is symmetric and parties are risk neutral. Monitoring costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222252
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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Returning to Work : The Role of Soft Skills and Automation-Resistance on Unretirement Decisions
Lee, Zeewan - 2021
skill-specific automatability is measured by how routinized their skills are and how little non-routine analytical ….e., soft skills in which human workers hold a comparative advantage over the machines) their skills encompass. Using 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220220