This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack ofinformation on the immigrants´ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting whois allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civilstrife in the home...

Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objectiveperformance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance oftheir subordinates. Using such systems, it is a well established fact that many supervisorstend to assess the employees too...

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia`s 2001 flat rate income tax reformon consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expendituresand reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

The proportion of students who do not graduate from high school is dramatically higheramong the two largest minority groups, Hispanics and African-Americans, compared to non-Hispanic whites...

This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...

In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of nativeworkers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in theaggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue that if labour markets arenot fully competitive, the...

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with education, and with the interaction between the two, and...

I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country.Administrative data from the Federated States of Micronesia`s (FSM) Social Security officeare matched to the FSM Census data for the wage sector employed. I find that the error inannual self-reported earnings is...