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; manufacturing and services sector ; migration ; skills … mechanism other than the Dutch Disease. Instead it is competition for skilled labour and the relative ease in producing skills … that affect the size of the manufacturing sector, including its employment of unskilled labour. -- deindustrialisation …
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mechanism other than the Dutch Disease. Instead it is competition for skilled labour and the relative ease in producing skills …
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …
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implications. Investment in skills, technology use, and participation in global value chains are key factors for work content and …
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the demand for domestic input quality (skills), counterbalancing the first effect. To provide evidence for this mechanism …
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This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points towards an...
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This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … representative surveys from Ghana and Kenya to shed light on the quality and distribution of skills in the labor markets of these … countries. Skills in both countries are found to be unevenly distributed, with significant parts of the labor force being …
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Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and reciprocity, which underpin cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits, and creates the base for economic prosperity. This study deals with the formation of social...
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A growth model with endogenous innovation and accumulation of high-tech and low-tech human capital is developed. The model accounts for a recently established fact about human capital composition, which stated that the richest countries are investing proportionally less than middle income...
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relationships between the interregional migration of human capital, regional economic disparities and aggregate economic growth were … the developed region in pursuit of higher wage income, generating costs during the migration process. In this study, the … effect of human capital accumulation and human capital migration on regional economic equilibrium and the aggregate economic …
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