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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …
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elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...
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the development of temporary employment influences the rent, i.e. the gap between productivity and wages at the firm level …
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This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment.We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …
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This paper investigates possible structural changes induced by the Euro on the relations among wages, prices and …
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This paper examines the distribution structural functions (DSFs) and quantile structural functions (QSFs) in a semiparametric treatment effect model. The DSF and QSF are defined as the distribution function and quantile function of the counterfactural outcome when covariates are exogenously...
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Remarks before the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Annual Convention, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
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A Comparable Wage Index (CWI) is an attractive mechanism for measuring geographic variations in the cost of education. A CWI measures uncontrollable variations in educator pay by observing systematic variations in the earnings of comparable workers who are not educators. Together, the 2000...
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international capital flows on domestic employment and wages in China within a systematic framework; also to reveal whether the … capital outflows will significantly reduce the level of domestic wages. The unofficially recorded capital flows would appear … negatively related to the domestic wages. Due to the complexities of relevant elements, the impact of different international …
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