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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Skill Premium"”.
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Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa
… working through product prices, has affected the skill premium in South Africa over the period 1990-2009. Our main finding is that trade liberalisation lead to a reduction in prices over this period, and through prices mandated a rise in the skill premium of 3.3%. The structure of the skill …
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Three Essays on the Macroeconomics of Information
… of information. The first chapter, "The Skill Premium, College Enrollment and Education Signals" explores the quantitative implications of a signaling model of education for the evolution of the skill premium for young workers in the US since the 1970s. I formalize the idea that as …
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Heterogeneous Technological Changes and Their Impacts on Income Inequality and Productivity Growth
… growth. In particular, I distinguish between skill-complementing and skill-replacing technological changes, with an emphasis on the latter. Skill-replacing technological change can take the form of an organizational change, or the development of a certain type of machinery that works with …
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Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
… returns from college. Allocation of ability into skill is determined by the equilibrium skill premium. Incorporating a production of higher education, the properties of the college market equilibrium are discussed. A skill biased technical change initially decreases self-selection into college, …
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Three essays in macroeconomics
… also leads to a global increase of the average skill premium despite a decrease of the price of skill intensive goods. I next examine whether the factor content of trade indeed does affect domestic education decisions. To establish a causal relation, I instrument for the factors embodied in …
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
… If the children go to school, they will become skilled workers next period. The old agents just consume the lifetime savings in form of capital. The main theoretical conclusion is that benevolent social planner maximizes a social welfare function and internalizes the external effects. The social …
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Essays in Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics
… I find that trends in education costs, the skill premium, and the compression of morbidity quantitatively explain the change in the age composition of entrepreneurs. In a series of sensitivity analyses, I establish that, to successfully match the observed rates, it is important to take into …
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Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market
… unambiguously positive and independent of the skill-content of the offshored and inshored tasks, the distribution of the gains from trade critically depends on the time horizon. Workers with human capital specific to the inshored tasks gain over those performing offshored tasks in the short …
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Three papers in international economics and macroeconomics
… is positively associated with the share of high-skilled hours worked but not with the skill premium. This is true in both the short and long run. To explain this puzzle, I develop a tractable general equilibrium model featuring skill bias in productivity and endogenous educational and …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… chapter attempts to explain the increase in skill premium in Argentina. Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled …
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Essays on Technology and Trade
… changed the pattern of trade. I document that skill-abundant countries no longer have a comparative advantage in skill-intensive sectors. While this empirical relationship was strong in the 1980s, it weakened in the 1990s and disappeared by the 2000s. The decline is more pronounced in countries …
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Three essays on development economics : household welfare
… of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premiums, industry and economy-wide skill premiums, and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-1995 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade liberalization appears …