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Socio-Economic Characteristics of Voluntary Labor Mobility
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Three essays on trade, growth, and labor mobility
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
"This dissertation addresses the determinants of labor mobility, its impact in human capital accumulation, and the role played by human capital accumulation in the income distribution. Each topic is analyzed using different case studies: the first one is answered using personnel records from a …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… negative externality from over-allocation of labor abroad (over migration) justify the presence of distortionary taxes. Chapter 2 shows that an increase in remittances due to shocks in the host country increases consumption, but reduces domestic output due to labor migration. In such a case, …
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Intersectoral Labor Mobility and Earnings Differentials in Urban Labor Markets: A Case Study of Slum Dwellers in Bangkok (Formal Sector, Informal Sector, Rural-Urban Migration; Thailand)
This study investigates the slum dwellers' labor market behavior and the outcomes of the labor market processes in Bangkok. The study assumes the dualistic structure of the labor market in which labor mobility takes place. In less developed countries, rural-urban migration is viewed to contribute …
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Essays on Human Capital and Financial Markets
… higher for firms that operate in mobile labor markets. We posit two channels through which labor mobility could positively affect firms’ cost of debt. First, relates to greater default risk arising from potential loss of key personnel and a corresponding reduction in future cash flows, …
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The role of skilled labor pool in driving firms to agglomerate: an empirical study on China's policy experiment
… 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. The …
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The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements
… between trade agreements and domestic labor mobility. The domestic-commitment motive from Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare (2007) and standard trade models with labor frictions predict that trade liberalization should occur when labor is more mobile. I find support for this prediction. Using …
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The Political Economy Of Preferential Trade Agreements
… between trade agreements and domestic labor mobility. The domestic-commitment motive from Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare (2007) and standard trade models with labor frictions predict that trade liberalization should occur when labor is more mobile. I find support for this prediction. Using …
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The impact of the eurasian economic union and china’s belt and road initiative on two regions (central asia and the caucasus)
… liberalization, regulatory harmonization, and labor mobility, while the BRI advances connectivity via infrastructure projects, loans, and soft power. Together, these frameworks can complement each other—EAEU stability supporting BRI projects—if countries coordinate regulations and manage debt …
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Artificial intelligence impact on occupations and workforce
… their technological suitability data with labor market data, this paper suggests a policy model for better planning labor mobility and allocation of human resources in the face of upcoming technological changes.
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Lietuvos regionų darbo rinkos socialinė-ekonominė analizė 2004 – 2014 m /
… markets, determining causes of and the regional labor market influence factors. The second part of various statistical methods, carried out a dynamic analysis of the labor market, socio - economic indicators on the labor market assessment to identify key factors influencing the level of …
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MODEL AND WORKER MOBILITY
… firms. Study 2 examines the impacts of worker mobility on the productivity of IT firms. Using a novel structural approach with joint General Moment Method estimation and a large dataset on labor mobility derived from LinkedIn, the study shows that hiring one employee from leading software …
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Labor Market Dynamics: The Role Of Occupations And Technological Changes
… examines how occupational characteristics shape labor mobility patterns in response to unexpected shocks. Chapter 1 (Introduction) introduces this central question, which is explored through two complementary empirical studies: one focusing on an economy-wide shock (pandemic and mandatory …
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Learning in the labor market
… essays that study the implication of learning on labor mobility, labor supply, wage distribution, wage dynamics, and allocations of workers under different assumptions about the nature of employer learning. The first essay develops a model of job mobility and wage dispersion under the assumption …
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Industrial structure and employment growth in the 1990s in Appalachian counties
… of Appalachian counties, after controlling for labor-market conditions and other factors, such as labor mobility, natural amenities, and market size. Spatial exploratory data analysis of the competitive employment growth (CEG) in Appalachian region shows that strong spillover effect of CEG …
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Essays on Information Technology Adoption among Commercial Firms
… overview. Chapter 2 investigates how worker mobility influences the adoption of a new general-purpose technology (GPT) that requires significant complementary investments. I use the state-level changes to the enforceability of noncompete agreements as a plausible exogenous shock to labor …
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Chefs' perceptions of convenience food products in university food service operations
… include: staff motivation problems, facilitated labor mobility, increased emotional labor for supervisor, health and nutrition down-sides, and more waste. Therefore, to further explore this issue, a paper and pencil survey was administered to culinary managers in a large university dining …
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Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets
… references, and word of mouth information in labor markets. The first essay examines the importance of job connections for internal migrants. In this chapter, I develop a theoretical model where labor market networks provide labor market information with less noise than information obtained in …
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Transportation Costs And Economic Development
… how idiosyncratic transportation frictions as labor mobility barriers affect the sectoral sorting of workers between agriculture and non-agriculture and quantify their impact on aggregate and sectoral productivity, the pattern of occupational choices and selection. I add idiosyncratic transport …
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