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that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap …
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Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …
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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining inhouse production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …
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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced … with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
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effect on the multinational wage premium: Foreign multinationals pay lower wages than German multinationals if the ultimate … multinationals and domestic multinationals pay wages of similar size, with both types of firms paying a premium relative to other … local firms. To provide a rationale for this pattern, we develop a theoretical model in which wages are firm-specific and …
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …
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effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the …
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