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Source country economic development and dynamics of the skill composition of emigration
Idu, Roxana - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/18, pp. 1-18
offers new hypotheses regarding the skill composition of emigration during the mobility transition. Skill … high-to-low skill emigration ratio. As SBTC eventually diffuses to the source economy, it also raises the relative return … to high skill investment there, and causes a decline in the high-to-low skill emigration ratio. Empirical evidence using …
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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013577
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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019336
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018 - This Draft May 2018
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862868
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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia
Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...
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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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What does human capital do? : a review of Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H. - 2012
Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318593
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour : New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2021
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321322