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Globalizing Labor and the World Economy: The Role of Human Capital

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We develop a dynamic model of the world economy that jointly endogenizes individual decisions about fertility, education and migration. We then use it to compare the short- and long-term effects of immigration restrictions on the world distribution of income. Our calibration strategy replicates the economic and demographic characteristics of the world,
Delogu Marco, Docquier Frédéric, Machado Joël   +2 more
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Labor, Capital, and Human Rights

2019
Abstract This chapter discusses how the US tax code—like many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) country tax codes—favors capital over labor, and thereby is at odds with fundamental tenets of human rights and policy principles regarding equity.
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Human Capital Investment and Labor Supply Under Uncertainty

International Economic Review, 1990
We extend the theory of human capital investment under uncertainty by incorporating post-investment labor supply as a choice variable. We show that human capital investment decreases in response to an increase in risk about its return if such investment is an inferior activity and preferences exhibit decreasing risk aversion.
Snow, Arthur, Warren, Ronald S, Jr
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Human Capital and Labor Market Dynamics

2007
Abstract Although Jacob Mincer is well known for his work on income distribution and the labor supply phenomena, he also explored other important topics in labor research. This chapter explores his efforts to understand better the dynamic nature of the labor market, especially with regard to workers' mobility and unemployment.
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The Mobility of Labor and the Theory of Human Capital

The Journal of Human Resources, 1967
Recent developments in the study of human resources, initiated particularly by the pioneering works of Theodore W. Schultz, gave rise to new approaches to problems of labor mobility. This paper aims to integrate labor mobility into the analytical framework of human capital theory and to develop some answers regarding the functioning of labor markets ...
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IPOs, Human Capital, and Labor Reallocation

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
AbstractHow does access to public equity markets affect the human capital of IPO filing firms? While IPO filing firms have high average wages and limited industrial diversification, a successful IPO increases departures of high-wage employees to startups and triggers industrial diversification through employment growth in non-core industries ...
Tania Babina, Paige Ouimet, Rebecca Zarutskie   +2 more
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Human Capital and Rural Labor Issues

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1993
Among the remarkable successes of American economic development has been the release of labor from agriculture and related rural sectors. This success has not come without cost for rural areas, however, as their population share has fallen from 65% in 1890 to 43% in 1940 and to under 25% in 1990 (U.S. Bureau of Census).
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Human capital responses to technological change in the labor market [PDF]

, 1993
In a broad sense, the relation of human capital to economic growth is reciprocal. This study focuses more narrowly on labor market consequences of human capital adjustments to the pace of technological change. Using Jorgensons multifactor productivity growth indexes for industrial sectors in the 1960's and 1970's the study explores effects of ...
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Life-Cycle Labor Supply with Human Capital Accumulation

International Economic Review, 1989
A dynamic model of labor supply under uncertainty with endogenous human capital accumulation is developed and estimated using 1968-81 Panel Study of Income Dynamics male panel data. Given a learning-by-doing technology for human capital investment and a translog utility function, structural parameters for preferences and technology are estimated from ...
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Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market

This volume (Parts A and B) contains 16 new studies that shed light on key aspects of immigration: the drivers of immigration, the factors fostering or hindering immigrant integration in the host country, and the impact of immigration in the host countries.
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