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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528414
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Geography of skills and global inequality
Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education and mobility decisions, population growth, and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910583
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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration and human capital accumulation in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288247
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The Role of Human Capital in the Conditions of Post-industrial Globalization
Nabiyeva, Irada - 2020
Human capital management in the current business environment is facing many changes and transformations due to ongoing globalization processes. The processes of globalization that have intensified in the world economy, have affected the activities of organizations around the world.The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826999
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Information communication technology and manufacturing industry exports based on technology intensity in OECD and non-OECD countries
Handoyo, Rossanto Dwi; Ibrahim, Kabiru Hannafi; … - In: Research in globalization 8 (2024), pp. 1-13
Studies on the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the export of the manufacturing industry, as disaggregated into the low-, medium-, and high-technology intensity, were lacking. However, the trade impact of ICT is mixed and relies on countries' development and adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050051
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520525
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250019
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International Trade, Non-Trading Firms and their Impact on Labour Productivity
Millard, Stephen - 2019
In this paper we examine the impact of non-trading firms on labour productivity and its persistence in response to macroeconomic shocks, through their entry and exit into the domestic market, in a model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms. We quantify the effects of various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888750
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The economics of labor
Borjas, George J. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394090
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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or a closely related industry as their fathers' industry of employment. Second, this tendency is correlated with intelligence: higher-IQ entrepreneurs are less likely to follow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928500