By Olivia Briffault. Yale University. --- A surprising finding in analyses of the effects of immigration is that immigrants generally have a limited effect on local labor market outcomes. One reason that has been hypothesized is that immigration generates...
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How Does Technology Affect Skill Demand? Technical Changes and Capital-Skill Complementarity in the 21st Century
By Yifan (Eva) Gong. Macalester College. --- This paper attempts to examine technology's impact on the labor market through the lens of skilled labor. Technical changes in the late 20th century are skill-biased...
The Veil of Communism: An Analysis of Lifespan, GDP per Capita, Human Capital, and Agricultural Productivity in Eastern Europe
By Matei Dăian. Stanford University. --- There is a clear economic difference between the more economically-developed Western Europe and their poorer counterparts in Eastern Europe...