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Deteminants of interregional migration in Spain: new analysis techniques

Maza, Adolfo; Villaverde, Jose - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 4, pp. 133-142

This paper analyses the determinants of internal migration in Spain from a regional standpoint. For this purpose, it develops both a nonparametric and semiparametric approach. The general conclusion that it is drawn from the study is that migratory movements are very persistent and mainly...

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Ramos, Raul; Suriñach, Jordi - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2012) 24, pp. 5-9

others) in the special session on «Wages and Regional Labour Markets» organised within the activities of the 51st Congress of …

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Wage differences in Spain: an industry regional analysis

Aláez Aller, Ricardo; Longás García, Juan Carlos; … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2003) 3, pp. 5-24

The present paper seeks to analyse regional and industry wage differentials in Spain. Differences in observed industry and regional earnings are to be expected, whenever the considered individuals differ with respect to their human capital characteristics. However, this paper shows, using data...

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Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Stehrer, Robert; Vries, Gaaitzen - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 149 (2013) 4, pp. 631-662

In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing—or offshoring—and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995–2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World Input–Output Database to estimate a system of variable...

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Occupational Human Capital and Wages: The Role of Skills Transferability Across Occupations

Nawakitphaitoon, Kritkorn - In: Journal of Labor Research 35 (2014) 1, pp. 63-87

workers’ wages. Unlike previous studies that apply occupational tenure as a proxy for occupational human capital, this paper … occupational skills from the previous jobs can also affect the workers’ wages at the current job and that occupational investment … is one of the important sources of wages supporting the Shaw’s original work on wage determination. Specifically, 5 years …

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The wage effects of subsidized career breaks

Skans, Oskar; Liljeberg, Linus - In: Empirical Economics 47 (2014) 2, pp. 593-617

groups with low expected returns to experience, and in an environment with very compressed wages. The career breaks also …

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The Human Capital Model of Selection and the Long-run Economic Outcomes of Immigrants

Qiu, Theresa; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...

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An Overview of the Working Lives of Older Baby Boomers

Schellenberg, Grant; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013

With the leading edge of the baby boom generation now in their mid-sixties, there is considerable interest in how and when these individuals will retire. To help place this issue in a broader context, this paper provides information on the employment histories of individuals who were aged 33 to...

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Annual Levels of Immigration and Immigrant Entry Earnings in Canada

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

entering immigrants and place downward pressure on wages for immigrants arriving in that cohort. …

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Le modele de selection selon le capital humain et les resultats economiques a long terme des immigrants

Qiu, Theresa; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

Au Canada, au cours des annees 1990 et des annees 2000, la selection des immigrants economiques s?est appuyee principalement sur le modele d?immigration axe sur le capital humain. Ce modele a pour premisse que selectionner des immigrants dont le niveau de capital humain est eleve est...

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