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Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Butikofer, Aline; Dalla Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga - 2019

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...

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TBTs, Firm Organization and Labour Structure - The Effect of Technical Barriers to Trade on Skills

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba - 2020

Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In particular, the imposition of new technological standards in destination markets may force exporters to adjust the firm's organization to comply and cope with the additional...

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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization …

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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies Under Skill-Biased Technical Change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2021

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...

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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited

Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …, and is associated with higher average productivity and firm profits, but also with higher wage dispersion. We also show …

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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply

Kesternich, Iris - 2020

Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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