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This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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expected to have the greatest impact on firm's productivity. Second, distant job matches might be a selective sample: greater … spatial mobility enables finding better matches based on non-spatial human capital. Third, nonlocal job matches might be …(3), 1992). I look into wage growth between jobs, tenure and wage growth on the job to infer about the initial certainty about …
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This paper studies the locational choice of Italian mobile graduates, tackling simultaneously three aspects. First it analyses the structural drivers of migration (i.e. the key regional characteristics that attract high-skilled migrants) and the social structures that underpin it (i.e the role...
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-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … associated with higher job mobility. We conclude that low relative income (compared to the neighbors) reduces workers' happiness …
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We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...
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This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...
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The study of disparities in the equilibrium of regional labor markets is crucial in a developing country as Brazil, where personal and regional inequalities are extremely pronounced, even with the recent efforts to alleviate them. Following the recent literature on the determinants of...
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This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...
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While the growing supply of university skills is known to have agglomerated towards the large centers in Finland, there is no research knowledge available on the development of regional demands. This paper attempts to fill this gap by analyzing regional variation in the private-sector return to...
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limited transferability of qualifications, or 'voluntary' is, however, unresolved; migrants may be willing to accept a job … represent the migrant's rational choice as long as she is compensated for the disutility of the job-skill mismatch by a higher …
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