Winners and Losers among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force surveys. We...

The Effect of College Education on Health We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality ...

Regression and neural network models of wage determination are constructed where the explanatory variables include detailed information about the impact of school curricula on future earnings. It is established that there are strong nonlinearities and interaction effects present in the relationship between curriculum and earnings. The results have important implications in the context of the hu...

We study the evolution of an educational system founded on a hierarchical di®erentiation between vocational and general education, with vocational playing an inferior role in the society. The dynamics are best summarized by the ratio of the fraction of the population in vocational to that in general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of strati ̄cation of the society. We sho...

An optimal decision model is developed to explore the impact of the structure of knowledge on specialization and cooperation in research. It shows that, (1) the degree of specialization in knowledge increases with the depth of knowledge and cooperation efficiency, and decreases with the average number of disciplines that are required for the solution of the problem; (2) the problem which requir...

SUMMARY This study draws on human capital theory to measure the quality of accounting personnel based their education level and investigate whether client firm’s affects auditors’ assessment audit risk by examining outcomes. It shows that auditors charge higher fees are more likely make adjustments for companies whose have a lower education. The relationship between (audit adjustments) is robus...

Management matters for firms, but what practices are optimal in hierarchical government organizations? And can skilled managers identify them? A large-scale randomized trial conducted with the police of Rajasthan, India, tested four interventions recommended by senior officers: limitations transfers, rotation duties and days off, increased community involvement, on-duty training. Field experien...

Abstract We measure U.S. listed companies’ skilled labor risk—that is, the potential failure in attracting and retaining labor, by intensity of discussions on this issue 10-K filings. show that effectively captures firm risk due to mobility labor. find an increase from 25th 75th percentile would wage 22% (or $15,593) also lead higher equity-based incentive pay. The interacts with other corporat...

We study labor market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland. Admission track increases initial annual income, and this benefit persists at least through mid-thirties, present discount value calculations suggest that it is unlikely life cycle will turn negative retirement. Moreover...

This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen renewed interest because COVID-19. We begin by providing an overview key contextual epidemiological details as well data are available to researchers. then examine effects mortality, fertility, economy in short medium run. The role non-pharmaceutical inte...