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authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … members, whereas in civil-law countries, only older members enjoy higher wages. The authors also contrast wage premia with … productivity. …
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This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to...
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cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher …
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-cognitive skills are associated with disparities in firm-level wage structures. Correlations between wages and personality traits are …Many employers and employees believe that non-cognitive skills are an important contributor to labor market success … correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality …
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of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …Evidence from developed country data suggests that cognitive and non-cognitive skills contribute to improved labor … that incorporates modules to measure cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The paper estimates a structural latent model with …
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developing countries. The growing demand for skills is associated with recent technological developments. The authors argue that … documents a premium for computer use. But there is recent evidence suggesting that computer skills by themselves do not command … operational strategy of increasing computer availability and skills would seem to offer considerable hope for increasing the …
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Although the nature and magnitude of (positive or negative) spillovers from large farm establishment are hotly debated … surveys allows examination and quantification of spillovers using intertemporal changes in smallholders’ proximity and … exposure to large farms, generally or growing the same crop, for identification. The results suggest positive spillovers on …
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intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms' performance, through the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct … better performance of the domestic firms that shared their suppliers. Overall, the shared supplier spillovers of FDI explain … 1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms …
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correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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