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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 employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to … high-skilled workers represents up to one third of their overall skill premium. But, while an increase in exports increases …
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Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though labor abundant, it nevertheless exported skill-intensive goods and protected labor-intensive sectors prior to liberalization. Post-liberalization, the relative wage of skilled...
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' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …
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structure of wages that have occurred over the past three decades …
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in the model is that accounting for the distinction between skill prices and measured wages is important for analyzing …
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Affordable higher education is, and has been, a key element of social policy in the United States with broad bipartisan support. Financial aid has substantially increased the number of people who complete university - generally thought to be a good thing. We show, however, that making education...
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Chinese imports and exports grew rapidly during the first three decades of the twentieth century as China opened up to … exports became more unskilled-intensive and imports became more skill-intensive during these three decades. The exogenous … shock of World War I dramatically raised the price of Chinese exports and increased the demand for these goods overseas and …
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The traditional studies of income distribution, a field with which economists are becoming increasingly concerned, must be described as basically sociological. The ascendancy of the human capital approach can be viewed as a reaction of economists to this non-economic, though certainly not...
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largely attributable to human capital investments? Section 3 tests the proposition that over the working age capacity wages (i ….e. wages before netting out investment) decline before observed wages do. Implied timing of labor supply provides the test. The …
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sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …
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