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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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-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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information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing …
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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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levels in seven East Asian countries with the objective of providing a comprehensive analysis of trends in demand for skills … region; (b) generally increasing demand for skills in the region; (c) the service sector has become the most important driver … of demand for skills for all countries (except Thailand); (d) countries can be broadly categorized into three groups in …
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wages and the demand for skills … wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry …
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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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This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm … productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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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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