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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Promotion signals, age and education

Bognanno, Michael L.; Melero, Eduardo - 2012

This paper examines whether more informative job promotions carry larger wage increases. In job assignment models with asymmetric information, unexpected promotions send a signal to the external labor market to revise upward their assessment of a worker's ability. The employing firm must then...

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level

Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2012

While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...

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Skill based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2012

Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...

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Tougher educational exam leading to worse selection

de Carvalho Andrade, Eduardo; De Castro, Luciano I. - 2011

A parallel of education with transformative processes in standard markets suggest that a more severe control of the quality of the output will improve the overall quality of the education. This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam difficulty may reduce the...

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Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit forschungs- und wissensintensiver Unternehmen

Nusser, Michael - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 88 (2008) 9, pp. 594-603

Einige wichtige Indikatoren deuten darauf hin, dass der Innovationsstandort Deutschland im Bereich der forschungs- und wissensintensiven Branchen seine derzeitige technologische Wettbewerbsposition im Vergleich zu wichtigen Konkurrenzländern nicht dauerhaft halten kann. Welche Schwächen sind...

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Exchange rates and wages

Goldberg, Linda; Tracy, Joseph - 2001

Understanding the effects of exchange rate fluctuations across the population is important for increasingly globalized economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment to exchange rate changes. We...

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Propensity score matching, a distance-based measure of migration, and the wage growth of young men

Ham, John C.; Li, Xianghong; Reagan, Patricia B. - 2005

let the effect of migration on wage growth differ by schooling level. Third, we use propensity score matching to measure … appropriateness of matching as an econometric method for studying migration and (ii) choose the conditioning variables used in the … matching procedure. Our data set provides a rich array of variables on which to match. We find a significant effect of …

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The selection of migrants and returnees in Romania: Evidence and long-run implications

Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2012

This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...

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