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groups have not experienced any significant increase. This paper uses the demand and supply model with imperfect substitution … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in … favor of workers with a tertiary education. More importantly, the demand shifts occurred in both the 1980s and 1990s …
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How does demand for migrant vs native workers change with price? We conduct an experiment with 56,000 Danish households … background, we find that demand is significantly lower than when the operator is a native. The gap, however, is highly sensitive … to price, with demand for the migrant increasing steeply as the price falls. For an hourly pay close to the 25th …
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How does demand for migrant vs native workers change with price? We conduct an experiment with 56,000 Danish households … background, we find that demand is significantly lower than when the operator is a native. The gap, however, is highly sensitive … to price, with demand for the migrant increasing steeply as the price falls. For an hourly pay close to the 25th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823984
contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers … of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with … lower IT prices in sample European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations and …
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This study investigates the effect of a negative demand shock on the composition of worker types at firms and examines … experiment to clearly identify the causal link between the demand encountered by a firm and the composition of its workforce in … terms of worker types, as well as to rule out any reverse causation. The decrease in demand experienced by Japanese …
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's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms … local demand shocks in other counties linked through firms' internal networks. These results are not driven by direct demand …
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contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
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provides the first credible evidence on the demand for child care characteristics in the market for home-based care. Using a …
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Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications – widely considered important inputs to classroom quality - are valued by providers during the hiring process. To do so, we...
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