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Labor Quality, the Demand for Skill, and Market Selection

Rosen, Sherwin - 2021

This paper investigates some alternative definitions of labor for productivity and demand analysis. The paper is organized as follows: Section II considers the organization of work activities in a simple fixed coefficient technology in the presence of comparative advantage among various classes...

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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel

Gandal, Neil; Hanson, Gordon H.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most Russian immigrants had high education levels relative to the average Israeli. Despite the size and skill mix of the immigration shock, existing research has found little...

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The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States : Recent Trends and Their Determinants

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Smith, James P. - 2021

The objective of this paper is to describe and understand the determinants of changes in the number and quality of new legal immigrants to the United States over the last 25 years. Our main interest is in understanding the behavioral response of potential immigrants to changes in the U.S....

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Learning on the Quick and Cheap : Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise

Markusen, James R.; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2021

experts who may train domestic unskilled workers who work with them. Gains from training can in turn be decomposed into two …, foreign experts can be hired in period 1 and domestic unskilled labor working with the experts become skilled in the second … period. We analyze how production, training, and welfare depend on two important parameters: the cost of foreign experts and …

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

Neumark, David - 2011

The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...

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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013

This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs -...

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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches : Evidence for the Us

Cappelli, Peter - 2014

Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...

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Trade, Skills, and Quality Upgrading : A Theory with Evidence from Colombia

Fieler, Ana Cecilia - 2014

We develop a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous quality choices. Producing higher quality involves returns to scale, it is intensive in skilled labor and high-quality inputs. Firms' quality choices are interrelated because firms sell their goods to consumers and...

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Different Strokes for Different Folks : Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills

Mohanan, Manoj - 2019

A central issue in designing performance incentive contracts is whether to reward the production of outputs versus use of inputs: the former rewards efficiency and innovation in production, while the latter imposes less risk on agents. Agents with varying levels of skill may perform better under...

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