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Cognitive skills, such as reading and numeric skills, are key determinants of wages, employment and long-term economic growth. Good cognitive skills also reduce poverty risk and improve non-material wellbeing, such as health and social cohesion. Non-cognitive skills, such as skills to use...
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Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality of services, it also creates entry barriers and...
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Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland have been consistently the most favourable to immigration while … high average levels of support for immigration, however, many countries of western and northern Europe are quite strongly … polarized internally along educational and age lines. This can perhaps explain why political divisions over immigration can be …
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This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this … market outcomes between immigrants and natives were accentuated by the recession, when the employment penalty was the highest …
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responsive to changes in cyclical conditions. Immigration provides the skills that the Irish economy needs. The crisis triggered … a sharp reversal in migration flows, with immigration suddenly halting and emigration increasing. A large proportion of … emigration is highly qualified, as is a high proportion of immigration. This pattern of “brain exchange” can contribute to …
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New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …
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The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...
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As unemployment rates have reached historical lows across many OECD countries, it is important to focus on the economically inactive – that is people who are neither in a job nor seeking work. This paper reviews recent trends in economic inactivity across the OECD, focusing on places and...
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This report asks what is happening to middle-skill workers. Driven by mega trends such as automation, ageing and offshoring, the share of jobs whose wages placed them firmly in the middle of the wage distribution has been declining. Termed job polarisation, economists have observed the decline...
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There is a long-standing economic research literature on the impact of technological innovation and automation in general on employment and economic growth. Traditional economic models trade off a negative displacement or substitution effect against a positive complementarity effect on...
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