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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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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319372
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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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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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Wages and Human Capital in Finance : International Evidence, 1970-2005
Boustanifar, Hamid - 2017
1970-2005. Finance relative skill intensity and skilled wages generally increase but not in all countries, and to varying … degrees. Skilled wages in finance account for 36% of increases in overall skill premia, although finance only accounts for 5 … are the most important factors driving wages in finance. Differential investment in information and communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970052
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Wages and Human Capital in Finance : International Evidence, 1970-2011
Boustanifar, Hamid - 2016
1970-2011. Finance relative wages generally increase but not in all countries, and to varying degrees. Trading … the most important factor driving up wages in finance; it has a larger effect in environments where informational rents … technology does not have causal explanatory power. High finance wages attract skilled international immigration to finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005717
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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach
Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424152
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044406
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Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011
The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for economic efficiency within a changing technological and social environment. Ethical evaluations of these developments diverge, yet the view that free labor markets drive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331414