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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Skill Shortages in German Establishments

Bellmann, Lutz - 2014

This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, we analyze the importance of firm characteristics and that of some specific...

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Flight of the H-1b : Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers

Depew, Briggs - 2013

Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT guest workers and provide new evidence on their inter-firm...

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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Guzi, Martin - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

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Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand

Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023

We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...

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Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration

Fan, Jingting; Li, Lei - 2023

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

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The Role of 'Skill Enhancing Trade' in Brazil : Some Evidence from Microdata

Araujo, Bruno - 2009

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...

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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - 2021

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...

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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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