Background Introduction Well-established vocational education and training systems (VET) have become widely recognised as facilitating smooth school-to-work transitions (Buchmann 2011). One main reason for successful labour market entry can be found in institutionalised Abstract Background: This study links TREE panel data surveying school-to-work transitions in Switzerland with unique job adve...

IZA DP No. 11241 DECEMBER 2017 Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants* This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country’s population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants’ labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Surve...

It is not clear whether interactions among superstar employees lead to an increase in productivity. Such are relatively rare, and measuring productivity challenging. In this paper, it suggested that these difficulties can be overcome by analysing changes the performance of elite National Basketball Association (NBA) players who participate Olympic Games. By using advanced individual measures, s...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between employment precariousness and high skilled migration. There exists a large number studies investigating effects precarious on various issues ranging from unemployment job insecurity, however, migration are scarce. In addition, in scholarly literature, developed economies presented as specific with patterns differing those low-inco...

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of technology imports over the past few years, but that there are large cross-country discrepancies in tec...

BACKGROUND Skilled birth attendance from a trained health professional during labour and delivery can prevent up to 75% of maternal deaths. However, in low- and middle-income rural communities, lack of basic medical infrastructure and limited number of skilled birth attendants are significant barriers to timely obstetric care. Through analysis of self-reported data, this study aimed to assess t...

This study adopts a GNP function approach in order to examine the impact of migrant labour on domestic factors of production in the United Kingdom. We also examine the relationship between imports and migrants, which are two different facets of globalisation. We find that an increase in the number of unskilled migrants reduces the wages of unskilled domestic workers. However the quantitative im...

This paper assesses the impact of investmentand education-specific technical change on occupational transition and the skill premium in a model with human capital. In this framework, human capital augments labour productivity and also facilitates the transition to skilled employment. In line with empirical evidence, this setup predicts that an increase in the productivity of physical capital (i...

I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in US/ UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labour market institutions prevented inequality from increasing. Although these explanations go some way towards accounting for the differential cross-country inequality trends, it also appears that relative ...