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I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using matched employer-employee and balance sheet data for the Veneto region of Italy, I identify a set of high-wage firms (HWF) and show they are...
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This paper presents a new bilateral database documenting international migration stocks by gender, education level … collecting or estimating migration to all non-OECD destinations. The end result is comprised of comprehensive 195x195 matrices of … international migration for 1990 and 2000, distinguishing migrants by gender and education (college educated and the less educated …
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I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using matched employer-employee and balance sheet data for the Veneto region of Italy, I identify a set of high-wage firms (HWF) and show they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113660
This article estimates the macroeconomic determinants of Mexican migration to the U.S.A., using information on the … ratio of the U.S.A.’s PIB to Mexico’s states PIB showed a positive effect on migration,suggesting regional economic … determinants for migration. In this case, the PIB per cápita had a negative effect, which implies that the poorest states …
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Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims...
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the early 1990s has already reduced the population. On top of this, there is the migration of the work force - most of the … migration rate, the mortality and birth rates, the unemployment rate, the real earnings, the secondary and tertiary education …
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This empirical study investigates the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis as it might have applied to net domestic state in-migration … rates over the period 1990 through 1999. It appears that the net state in-migration rate has been directly related to the …-of-life variables reflecting violent crime rates and sunnier climates, also seem to be significant determinants of the net state in-migration …
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This study reviews a host of issues related to international migration in Sub-Saharan Africa and presents an overview … understanding and management of migration in Sub-Sahara Africa and help maximize the potential benefits of migration, especially for … poor people, while minimizing its risks and costs. The study covers a broad range of issues in the migration literature …
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This article uses matched employer-employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990's and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre-boom individual...
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This contribution aims to provide some understanding of migration issues in the case of Morocco. This is to recall the … evolution of remittances and their impact on the economy is proposed. Similarly, we address the problem of migration of highly …
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