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Outsourcing Potentials and International Tradability of Jobs. Evidence from German Micro-Level Data

Koch, Andreas; Brändle, Tobias - 2013

We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...

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The influence of education on rural population employment: Regional disparities

Dinculescu, Corina-Georgeta - 2016

A higher level and continuous education throughout entire life (necessary for adapting to the changes in the labor market) and a better health offer greater chances of sustained economic and social development. Also, a higher education level contributes to decrease the disparities between...

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Social Media and Employment – Students' vs. Employers' Perspective

Mabić, Mirela; Gašpar, Dražena; Lesko Bošnjak, Lidija - 2020

Recently, social media has become an integral part of different business activities. One of these activities is the recruitment and selection of employees. The paper presents the results of empirical research conducted among the students of the University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH)...

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The Wage Effects of Regional Brain Gain and Brain Drain Revisited

Möller, Joachim; Eppelsheimer, Johann - 2016

Since the study by Moretti (2004) for the US, it is widely accepted that the spatial distribution of human capital plays an increasing role for regional labor market outcomes. Like in the pioneer approach we assume that workers' productivity at the firm level depend on the regional share of the...

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Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?

Piopiunik, Marc; Bietenbeck, Jan; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To circumvent bias due to unobserved student...

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Finding Quality Employment through Rural Urban Migration: a case study from Thailand

Amare, Mulubrhan; Hohfeld, Lena; Waibel, Hermann - 2011

This study investigates the effects of rural urban migration on economic development in Thailand. It draws upon a panel … data base of some 2000 rural households collected from 2007 to 2010 in three provinces from Northeast Thailand and migrant … Thailand. First there is evidence that the widely praised social protection policies for the rural poor in Thailand may be less …

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Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy

Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger - 2022

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Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014

We show that more human capital improves incentives in a standard optimal taxation problem: common assumptions about preferences and technology imply that the disutility of labor decreases less strongly in unobserved ability if agents have more human capital. Human capital thus reduces the...

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A Wage Based Measure of Aggregate Human Capital

Cerejeira, João - 2004

The role of the accumulation of human capital to per capita income growth has been sharply debated among economists and policy makers. One open question of this debate is how to measure human capital. The standard approach is to use the average years of education of the labour force or the...

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An Urban Accounting for Geographic Concentration of Skills and Welfare Inequality

Fu, Yuming; Hao, Yang - 2015

Using Jones (2014) generalized human capital accounting, we extend the urban accounting model of Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013) to account for the geographic distribution of skills across US metropolitan areas. The methodology allows the productivity of high-skill workers to depend on location...

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