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Estimating India’s Skill Gap on a Realistic Basis for 2022

by Santhosh Mehrotra; Ankita Gandhi and Bimal K Shoo Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013 The window of opportunity called the demographic dividend is available to India only till 2040. Realising the demographic dividend brings to the fore the very serious challenge of skilling our labour force. But before devising the skill development strategy [...]

E ects of Economic Development in China on Skill-Biased Technical Change in the US

by Angus C.Chu; Guido Cozzi and Yuichi Furukawa MPRA Paper no.44576, August 2012 In this study, we analyze the e¤ects of a decrease in unskilled labor in China on the direction of innovation in the US by incorporating production o¤shoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We .nd that if o¤shoring is present [...]

Migration, Unemployment, and Over-qualification: A Specific-Factors Model Approach

by Joan Muysken; Ehsan Vallizadeh and  Thomas Ziesemer MPRA Paper no.43057, December 2012 This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration ows on the host country’s labour market in a speci c-factors-two-sector model with heterogeneous labour (low, medium, and high skill) and price- and wage-setting behaviour. The low- and medium-skilled labour markets [...]

How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree?:Some Evidence from India on IntergenerationalOccupational Mobility

by Sripad Motiram and Ashish Singh Economic & Political Weekly, October6, 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper examines intergenerational occupational mobility in India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. It groups individuals into classes and documents patterns of mobility at the rural, urban and [...]

Performance of skilled migrants in the U.S. : a dynamic approach

by Aaditya Mattoo; Ileana Cristina Neagu and Caglar Ozden WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS 6140,July 2012 The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the United States labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other individual factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from [...]

Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?

by Volker Grossman and David Stadelmann IZA DP No.6610, May 2012 This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where individuals decide on education and subsequent emigration. Migration decisions are based on differences in net income across jurisdictions [...]

The world at work: Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people

by Richard Dobbs, Anu Madgavkar, Dominic Barton, Eric Labaye, James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, Susan Lund, Siddarth Madhav McKinsey Global Institute Report [2012] Over the past three decades, a global labor market has taken shape, spurring a massive movement from “farm to factory” in emerging markets and boosting output and productivity. But today, the strains on [...]

Labour Market Institutions and Skill Premiums:An Empirical Analysis on the UK 1972-2002

by Fei Peng and Lili Kang MPRA Paper No.38541, May 2012 Abstract. This paper analyzes the links between labour market institutions’ and skill premiums in the UK, controlling for other explanatory variables such as market conditions, international trade and skill-biased technology. We find that the trade union decline in unskilled workers can explain more than half [...]

Self-Confirming Immigration Policy

by Palo E Giordani and Michele Ruta WTO Staff Working Paper ERSD-2012-06, March 2012 We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a a¤ected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives.expectations [...]

Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education

by Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin IZA DP No. 5981, September 2011 This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We document increases in the number of workers [...]

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