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The skill premium effect of technological change : new evidence from United States manufacturing

Mallick, Sushanta Kumar; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: International labour review 156 (2017) 1, pp. 113-131

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Skill upgrading and wage gap : a decomposition analysis for Italian manufacturing firms

Iodice, Irene; Tomasi, Chiara - In: Economia politica : journal of analytical and … 33 (2016) 2, pp. 201-232

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Skill Upgrading and the Real Exchange Rate

Alvarez, Roberto; López, Ricardo A. - 2008

This paper examines the effect of changes in the real exchange rate on skill upgrading in the case of Chile. Using plant-level data from the manufacturing sector we find that a real depreciation increases the share of skilled workers in the total wage bill in exporters but not in non-exporters....

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Testing for R&D' Rents in Skilled Workers' Wage in the Manufacturing Industry of Colombia

Hernández Umaña, Iván Darío - 2006

This paper examines if firm investments in research and experimental development (R&D) activities generate quasi-rents in the wages of skilled workers in the manufacturing industries of Colombia. It will test the hypothesis that variations in wages of skilled workers and in R&D spending are both...

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International trade, labor flexibilization, and wage inequality : the colombian manufacturing case

Hernández-Luna, Yezid; Salazar-Pérez, Camila; … - In: Journal of globalization and development 14 (2023) 1, pp. 87-146

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...

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Determinants of Participation in Manufacturing GVCs in Africa : The Role of Skills, Human Capital Endowment and Migration

Yameogo, Nadege Desiree - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa … for economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, skilled labor seems to be the strongest determinant of participation in backward and … policies to improve Sub-Saharan Africa?s integration in manufacturing global value chains should target: shifting from …

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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa … for economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, skilled labor seems to be the strongest determinant of participation in backward and … policies to improve Sub-Saharan Africa's integration in manufacturing global value chains should target: shifting from …

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Wages and employment in Africa

Mazumdar, Dipak - 2002

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Do Chinese firms in Africa pay lower wages? : a comparative analysis of manufacturing and construction firms in Angola and Ethiopia

Oya, Carlos; Schaefer, Florian - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 168 (2023), pp. 1-14

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