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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"High-skilled"”.
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Migration and health: A study of Asian Indian high-skilled migrants in central Illinois
… of overweight and obesity among Asian Indian high skilled migrants in central Illinois and quantify the magnitude of association between the prevalence of overweight and obesity and duration of residence in the United States (US). Body mass index (BMI), measured as weight in kilograms divided …
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Some Issues on Optimal Non-Linear Taxation
… productivity. We let these two types be low- and high-skilled, respectively, and assume that emigration is costly. We prove that low-skilled agents ' incentive compatibility constraint is never binding at the optimum, while high-skilled citizens' one is. Moreover, these latter are net taxpayers …
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The Economic Impact of Migration on the European Countries
… effects of skill-based migration programmes on high-skilled migrants. First, to pursue these aims, we explore the long-run co-integration relationship as well as the short-run dynamics of 22 European countries by applying the ARDL bounding tests and the Granger causality tests. Results suggest …
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An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States
This dissertation examines skilled immigration in the context of labor and health economics. The research focuses on the high-skilled labor market, whereas previous studies either treat all immigrants as a homogeneous group or focus on the low-skilled. The first essay investigates the wage …
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Immigrants and Remittances: The Financial Ties That Bind
… to answer the following questions:1) Are low-skilled remitters different than high-skilled remitters?2) What is the overall profile of a remitter?In answering the aforementioned questions, I establish a strong background regarding the immigrant structure of the United States, potential reasons …
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Essays in international migration
… of three essays examining the effects of high-skilled immigration on various economic outcomes within the receiving country. In the first essay, I study how skilled immigrants affect wages and employment in US industries during 1995-2007, using novel microdata on approved H-1B visas. These …
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Three essays on the family gap and child education
… declines in the mid-1990s, especially for high-wage mothers, and mothers who earn below the median wage have experienced a smaller than average convergence of the motherhood wage gap. High-wage mothers earn higher wages than non-mothers, known as the motherhood premium, from the mid-1990s. …
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Skill composition, firm innovation and economic performance: Three essays
… on par with its competitors invests in high-skilled workers to innovate and escape intensifying competition. In contrast, a firm lagging technologically must invest in talent to catch up to the technology frontier, leading to diminished returns as competition increases. As a result, the …
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Trade, Labor Markets and the Organization of Production within Firms
… of a continuum of tasks and firms hire low-skilled and high-skilled workers for the performance of tasks, which differ in their complexity. How firms assign workers to tasks depends on factor prices for the two skill types and the productivity advantage of high-skilled workers in the …
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Essays on international economics and labor markets
… related to financial indicators: sectors with higher dependence on external financing experience lower creation and sectors with high indicators of liquidity needs experience larger destruction. These results provide evidence of financial conditions being an important transmission channel of …
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Essays on Innovation, Experimentation, and Discrimination
… preference for one of the two groups. With high-skilled workers, the firm always discriminates in the direction of its bias; however, with low-skilled workers, a counterintuitive incentive for the firm to discriminate against its bias can materialize in equilibrium. This results from the …
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing wage differentials within firms, which contradict the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem. Additionally, when controlling …
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Academic Learning Time in Physical Education in Ghana – A Descriptive Analytic Study
… the students was 20%, and ALT-PE was moderately higher for male student teachers than female student teachers. There was difference in ALT-PE scores between boys and girls. Low-skilled students accrued less ALT-PE than medium-skilled and high-skilled students. A great deal of time was spent in …
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Essays on Technology and Trade
… is more pronounced in countries and sectors with higher automation. I find no such heterogeneous effects among countries and sectors more exposed to offshoring. Using a quantitative trade model incorporating automation and offshoring, I confirm that the observed changes in automation can account …
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The role of skilled labor pool in driving firms to agglomerate: an empirical study on China's policy experiment
… identify agglomeration forces operating through skilled labor mobility. Specifically, this research uses a natural experiment in China regarding to skilled labor migration liberalization to examine the impact of skilled labor pool and knowledge availability on China’s industrial agglomeration. …
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How low-skilled immigration is changing US prices and labor markets : three essays
… consists of three essays on the effects of low-skilled immigration on US prices and labor markets. The first essay uses confidential data from the Consumer Price Index to estimate the causal effect of low-skilled immigration on the prices of non-traded goods. Then, it combines wage and price …
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Institutions, public policy and the product life cycle : the globalization of biomanufacturing and implications for Massachusetts
… that manufacturing has little future in a high-skilled, high-wage region, given competition from lower cost countries. High-tech regions like Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 need to focus on design and innovation, and "let others produce what Americans think up." Proponents of this …
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