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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Skilled Labor"”.
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Essays on the youth and low-skilled labor market
… consists of three chapters on the youth and low-skilled labor markets. In Chapter 1, I show that teen employment is significantly more responsive than adult employment to immigration, and that growth in low-skilled immigration appears to be a partial explanation for recent declines in teen …
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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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Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Labor
… the interaction between corporate finance and labor market. It contains three chapters. Chapter 1 studies the strategic role of debt structure in improving the bargaining position of a firm's management relative to its non-financial stakeholders. Debt structure is essential for strategic …
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TRADE POLICY AND THE LABOR MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA
… liberalization in a trading partner country on labor market outcomes, and the export wage premium. The first chapter studies the impact of trade liberalization in China on the firm-level skilled labor employment share in Korea. The second chapter examines the existence of the export wage …
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… 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 for …
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The Landscape of FDI Flows
… and potential determinants of a gravity model, skilled labor differences, and cultural proximity variables for the years 2000 and 2004. Through the use of fixed effects panel and first differenced estimation techniques on the aggregate flows dataset market potential, information, natural …
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Student Perceptions of Soft Skills as an Indicator of Workplace Success
… researcher reviewed literature to outline the skilled labor demands in the United States, employment expectations of new entrants to the workforce, and social-emotional research in order to understand the ability for individuals to develop the skills in the two year college environment. The …
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Rise of regions after reforms : late development strategies for the software industry in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala in India
… four critical factors: availability of adequate skilled labor and specialized infrastructure, pro-employer labor and policy reforms, ethnic linkages of immigrant professionals abroad who returned to establish firms in their native states, and their existing technological capabilities at the …
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A building system of urban housing, with special reference to Iran
… the present, the limitations of time and lack of skilled labor in Iran have hindered attempts to provide adequate housing on a mass scale. Now that the pattern of family living has been undergoing change, there is an ever-increasing demand for a different style of urban housing; that is, …
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College-for-all meets skills gap: Millennials’ decisions to pursue certificates in skilled trades
… of a group of students enrolled in traditional skilled trade certificate programs at a large Midwestern community college. Considering severe shortage of skilled labor in the geographic area of the college, there is great need for better understanding of ways to alleviate the labor shortage by …
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The economic and contracting issues of in-home child care: the nanny market
… supply (availability of an appropriately skilled labor pool--from both the legal and illegal market), price (wage levels and premiums) and the contracting issues of asymmetric information, search costs, transaction costs, uncertainty and risk. The market is best-explained as a search model …
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Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material for Urban Ethiopia
… of housing units, addressing the lack of skilled labor, cost of construction time and urban land respectively. An understanding of the design solution was established by constructing a full-scale section prototype and performing laboratory tests on key structural components.
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POSSIBLE LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
… purpose of low-cost comparative advantage in low-skilled labor-intensive production. Such conditions which may affect international market access and thus trade restrictions within the WTO mandates are imposable. As producers often have higher market power in the low-skilled labor market due to …
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Assessing Potential Industry Growth for Economic Development in Oakland, CA
… of jobs combined with the availability of a skilled labor force. When firms see the potential that a skilled labor force has, they are eager to invest in the area with a venture that will provide jobs to the community while making a profit. Oakland is unique in that about 42,000 people of the …
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Three essays in financial economics
… and Stock Returns, investigates the effects of labor costs on firms’ capital investments and stock returns. I estimate wage premia across U.S. industries and show that the negative investment-return relation implied by q-theory is steeper for high wage firms than for low wage firms. Using wage …
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Stabilization policies in less developed countries: The case of Jordan, 1967-1988
… resources. (2) Jordan exports a highly educated, skilled labor to the Gulf countries, relying substantially on their private remittances. (3) It is a highly open economy, with imports exceeding GDP for some years.
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Development of design & technology package for cost effective housing in Gujrat
… form, building types, materials of construction, skilled labor and environmental conditions. Analyze space utilization patterns and structural efficiency of major systems and building types in selected villages. Assess the priorities and affordability of households of different economic classes. …
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Builders, craftsmen and tradesmen in Montgomery County, Virginia, between 1850 and 1900
… and presence of apprentices indicated that skilled labor was available to residents and that some level of formal training did exist. Through the use of bills, receipts, and letters, the study also revealed individual and collaborative works as well as labor and material costs. Although …
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Three Empirical Essays on International Trade and Public Economics
… impacts of various policy issues on Turkish labor market and international trade. Chapter 1 examines the employment and wage effects of the refugee influx from Syria on Turkish native labor. Results indicate statistically significant negative employment and wage effects on the low-skilled and …
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General overview of the Nigerian construction industry
… to the Nigerian GDP and employment of labor are still very low. Despite its impressive performance, the industry faces a significant number of challenges including the lack of local skilled labor, power shortage, the unavailability of materials, and the unethical practices that are very …
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