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Skill Bias Magnified: Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing
Voigtländer, Nico - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 495-513
This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points toward an...
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Clemens, Michael A. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 198-202
Why do workers earn so much more in the United States than in India? This study compares the earnings of workers in the two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are members of the same work team), and the workers are...
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Inmigración y cuidados de mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid
 … - Fundación BBVA
La presente monografía muestra una mirada sobre los cuidados de las personas mayores ofrecidos por cuidadoras inmigrantes en el ámbito familiar en Madrid, en un mercado informal. A ello se llega a través de los discursos proporcionados por los actores que intervienen en ese proceso, las...
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The height premium in Indonesia
Sohn, Kitae - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 1-15
Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey for the year 2007, this paper estimates that a 10cm increase in physical stature is associated with an increase in earnings of 7.5% for men and 13.0% for women, even after controlling for an extensive set of productivity variables. When the height...
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Labor migration, human capital agglomeration and regional development in China
Fu, Yuming; Gabriel, Stuart A. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 3, pp. 473-484
labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities … the importance of human capital agglomeration benefits to disparate regional growth trajectories in China. …
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International productivity and factor price comparisons
Marshall, Kathryn G. - In: Journal of International Economics 87 (2012) 2, pp. 386-390
Using OECD input–output tables for a diverse group of 33 countries in the year 2000 and estimates of each country's factor stocks, I compute factor payments for aggregate labor and capital with value-added data adjusted for self-employment by sector. Using a detailed technology matrix for the...
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The End of Cheap Chinese Labor
Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Wu, Binzhen; Xiong, Yanyan - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 4, pp. 57-74
participation in world trade as a main driver of growth. At the beginning of China's economic reforms in 1978, the annual wage of a … Thailand. The Chinese wage was also low relative to productivity. However, wages are now rising in China. In 2010, the annual … Philippines and Thailand and significantly higher than those earned by workers in India and Indonesia. China's wages also …
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Economic transition and college premium in urban China
Wang, Le - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 238-252
China has recently undergone a series of reforms on higher education aimed at raising the level of human capital … population in China over time. In this paper, we contribute to the literature by examining college premium in urban China during …
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Immigration and Inequality
Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21
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