We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

The gravity model of immigration advocates that immigrants rationally weigh up the attractiveness of host countries to make their destination choice, being earnings levels and wage discrimination the main positive and negative drivers respectively. Giving that Brazil faces a shortage of human...

We integrate the task approach and skill formation model in the internal labor market theory. As a skill measure, “intellectual skills” to deal with changes and problems in the workplace is used. We highlight the institutional aspects of the task approach and quantitatively show the...