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Urban costs, wages, and selection
Dalvai, Wilfried - 2016 - This version: November 2014
In most countries housing and commuting costs amount for one-third or more of households' budgets. These urban costs have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic decisions of individuals and firms. This paper enriches the...
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Economic Geography and Wages : The Case of Indonesia
Amiti, Mary - 2006
This paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. The analysis is based on international trade and economic geography theory developed by Krugman and Venables (1995). We identify the agglomeration benefits off the spatial variation in firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783184
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Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors
Ransom, Tyler - 2020
I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831090
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Selective migration, occupational choice, and the wage returns to college majors
Ransom, Tyler - 2020
I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239055
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Globalization and equality : a cross-country analysis
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2024
Using a cross-sectional dataset of 13 manufacturing sectors in 27 Asian developing countries from 2008 to 2022, we investigated the impact of the presence of foreign firms on wages of workers from domestic firms. First, we found that the average wage of workers from foreign firms is higher than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574326
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Local Human Capital Externalities or Sorting? Evidence From a Displaced Workers Sample
Silva, João Carlos Cerejeira da - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2003
In this paper we want to assess if the positive association between individual earnings and local average education is due to human capital externalities or just reflects some ommitted factors. Using a sample of displaced workers, we take into account firm characteristics as well as individual...
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Market access and wages: A spatially heterogeneous approach
Paredes, Dusan; Iturra, Victor - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 349-353
We empirically test the positive relationship between market access and wages stated by New Economic Geography. Contrary to most estimations in other countries, we find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity of this elasticity across Chilean communities.
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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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Employment, wage and price reactions to the crisis in Spain : firm-level evidence from the WDN survey
Izquierdo Peinado, Mario; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F. - 2015
determinan la actividad económica, obre los ajustes salariales, de precios y de empleo en el período 2010-2013, y sobre la …, aunque las empresas más afectadas por la crisis también redujeron significativamente el empleo permanente. Por el contrario …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012529589
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¿Cómo se ajusta el mercado de trabajo ante cambios en el salario mínimo en el Perú? Una evaluación de la experiencia de la última década.
Jaramillo, Miguel; López, Kristian - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2006
remuneraciones y el empleo a lo largo de la distribución de los ingresos laborales. A diferencia de lo que ocurre en otros países de … amplios y negativos sobre el empleo tanto en el sector formal como en el informal. …
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