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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

The secular shift in labor demand from unskilled to skilled labor is explained within a model that is solved numerically. There are three branches producing a basic good, a differentiated luxury good, and an intermediate service. Production is more skill-intensive in the luxury good and the...

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Equilibrium Search Models and The Transition from School to Work.

Bowlus, A.J.; Kiefer, N.M.; Neumann, G.R. - Department of Economics, Tippie College of Business - 1997

This paper applies an equilibrium search to study the transition from schooling to work of US high school graduates. We consider the case where there is heterogeneity in firm productivity and the number of firm types is discrete. For this case the estimation problem is non-standard and the...

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Training Intensity and First Labor Market Outcomes of Apprenticeship Graduates

Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job … durations, and post-apprenticeship wages are all increasing functions of training intensity. Some implications for the ongoing …

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Reinterpreting the performance of immigrant wages from panel data

Hum, Derek; Simpson, Wayne - In: Empirical Economics 29 (2004) 1, pp. 129-147

Immigrants differ from the native born in terms of unobserved factors, such as motivation, and observed factors, including those related to the interruption of labour market activity and earning capacity, which may bias estimates of immigrant integration. Using panel data from the Survey of...

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FDI and wage spillovers in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert; Sjöholm, Fredrik - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 140 (2004) 2, pp. 321-332

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 143 (2007) 3, pp. 464-482

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The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program that Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Georgetown University, Department of Economics - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

Béatrice d’Hombres; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries

Picard, Pierre M.; Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...

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Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Webbink, Dinand - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add confirmation of the key results if we control for individual...

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