T he migration of labor across international boundaries has increased rapidly since 1990. More than 190 million individuals now live outside the countries of their birth, and the majority of migrants leave developing countries for countries with higher living standards than those of their home countries. Remittance flows have risen quickly over the same time frame, and in 2007 aggregate officia...

The rate of change in the share of skilled labor has increased steadily over the past 35 years in Swedish manufacturing. A closer inspection of the period after 1970 indicates that while relative supply changes of skilled labor seem to have been the main driving force behind the growing skill shares in manufacturing industries over the period 1970-85, an acceleration in the relative demand for ...

The dominant paradigm in studies of international migration has largely neglected the significance of skilled women in migratory streams. Much recent analysis of international migration has been overly influenced by conceptualizations developed in the context of the migration of women who engage in unskilled labor, or of ungendered but implicitly androcentric theorizations of skilled migration,...

BACKGROUND Skilled labor force is very important in economic growth. Workers become skilled when they are healthy and able to be educated and work. In this study, we estimated the effects of health indicators on labor supply. We used labor force participation rate as the indicator of labor supply. We categorized this indicator into 2 indicators of female and male labor force participation rates...

We study the impact of trade exposure on job biographies 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany. Rising export opportunities lead to two equally important sources earnings gains: and employer switches within same industry. Highly skilled benefit most. Import shocks mostly hurt low-skilled workers, especially when they possess lots industry-specific human capital. They also destroy workers...

In this lecture, we address the evidence on the Skill Biased Technical Change hypothesis. There are at least Þve class of theories that I can discern, and I'll say something about each time permitting: 1. Capital skill complementarity 2. Correlations and timing: Computer technology and skill upgrading 3. Characteristics of technology and tasks: Changes in the organization of work 4. Nelson/Phel...

In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled ones. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage market penalty for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the penalty has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We propose a theoretical model in which the (negative) social ...

The increase in wage inequality since 1980 in the United States has been more pronounced in larger cities, even after accounting for di¤erences in the composition of the workforce across locations. Using Census of Population and Census of Manufacturers data aggregated to the local labor market level, this paper examines the importance of changes in the factor bias of agglomeration economies, ca...

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but we find no such evidence for Swedish MNEs. This is consistent with the hypothesis that German MNEs l...