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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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Skill-Biased Transition : The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2021
increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill-favoring shifts in … time-invariant explanation for skill-biased changes in wages and employment in the Russian economy. The increased skill … wage premium has been driven mainly by institutional factors during the early period and by productivity and technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319700
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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia
Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019
industries have declined, while others flourished. Furthermore, new technologies and structural change create new skills and new … policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998476
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Beyond Hype and Despair : Developing Healthy Communities in the Era of Intelligent Tools
Zysman, John - 2019
There is much we do not know and cannot know about the socioeconomic impacts of intelligent machines. The impacts will be driven by business strategies that differ by sector and country. “Good jobs” strategies are possible. It is important to identify and strengthen the factors, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867404
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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality
Frederiksen, Anders (contributor);  … - 2008
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754931
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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications
Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019
dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867157
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Skill complementarity in production technology : ew empirical evidence and implications
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2019
dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024633
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Who owns the robots rules the world : workers can benefit from technology that substitutes robots or other machines for their work by owning part of the capital that replaces them
Freeman, Richard B. - 2015
reduce opportunities for good jobs and pay. But, with appropriate policies, the higher productivity due to robots can improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422761
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003
increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … time-invariant explanation for skill-biased changes in wages and employment in the Russian economy. The increased skill … wage premium has been driven mainly by institutional factors during the early period and by productivity and technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261607
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Parente and Prescott's Theory May Work in Practice But Does Not Work in Theory
Cozzi, Guido - 2008
In this paper we challenge Parente and Prescott's (1999) theoretical framework, which establishes that unions use their control of quot;work practicesquot; to thwart the efficient use of technology in the firms. We argue instead that unions, despite endowing monopoly rights over a technology,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773739