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Labor Quality, the Demand for Skill, and Market Selection

Rosen, Sherwin - 1977

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 - 2000

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

Markusen, James R. - 2004

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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Green Skills

Vona, Francesco - 2015

The catchword 'green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...

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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 Cecília - 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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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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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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Foreign-Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

There has been little analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on U.S. wage inequality, even though the presence of foreign-owned affiliates in the United States has arguably grown more rapidly in significance for the U.S. economy than trade flows. Using data across U.S....

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

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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