Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,415
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806025
Cover Image
How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993
Cover Image
Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive (negative) assortative matching, good workers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125811
Cover Image
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
Dustmann, Christian - 2012
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112767
Cover Image
Skill Development and Sustainable Prosperity : Cumulative and Collective Careers versus Skill-Biased Technical Change
Lazonick, William; Moss, Philip; Salzman, Hal; Tulum, Öner - 2015
There is widespread and growing concern about the availability of good jobs in the U.S. economy. Inequality has been growing for thirty years and is now at levels not seen since the 1920s. Stable and remunerative employment has become harder for U.S. workers to find. With the widespread plant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134096
Cover Image
Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System : A Political Economy Analysis
Ortega, Javier; Tangerås, Thomas P. - 2004
We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. Under a unilingual system, the language of the politically dominant group is the only language of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276812
Cover Image
Estimating complementarity between education and training
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784398
Cover Image
Tougher educational exam leading to worse selection
Andrade, Eduardo de Carvalho (contributor);  … - 2008
(productivity) of selected individuals. Since the exam does not verify all skills, when its standard rises, candidates with … relatively low skills emphasized in the test and high skills demanded in the job may no longer qualify. Hence, an increase in the … testing standard may be counterproductive. One implication is that policies should emphasize alignment between the skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782138
Cover Image
The quantity and quality of teachers : a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2009
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806054