Occupational choice and development
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- dc.contributor.author Eeckhout, Janca
- dc.contributor.author Jovanovic, Boyanca
- dc.date.accessioned 2010-11-24T10:40:33Z
- dc.date.available 2010-11-24T10:40:33Z
- dc.date.issued 2012
- dc.description.abstract The rise in world trade since 1970 has been accompanied by a rise in the geographic span of control of management and, hence, also a rise in the e ective international mobility of labor services. We study the e ect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. The world's welfare gains depend positively on the skill-heterogeneity of the world's labor force. We nd that when people/ncan choose between wage work and managerial work, the worldwide labor market raises output by more in the rich and the poor countries, and by less in the middle-income countries. This is because the middle-income countries experience the smallest change in the factor-price ratio, and where the option to choose between wage work and managerial work has the least value in the integrated/neconomy. Our theory also establishes that after economic integration, the high skill countries see a disproportionate increase in managerial occupations. Using aggregate data on GDP, openness and occupations from 115 countries, we find evidence for these patterns of occupational choice.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Eeckhout J, Jovanovic B. Occupational choice and development. J Econ Theory. 2012; 147(2): 657-683. DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2011.01.002en
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2011.01.002
- dc.identifier.issn 0022-0531
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/8582
- dc.language.iso engen
- dc.publisher Elsevierca
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Economic Theory. 2012;147(2):657-683
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/208068en
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- dc.subject.keyword Openness
- dc.subject.keyword Occupational Choice
- dc.subject.keyword Mobility
- dc.subject.keyword Matching
- dc.subject.other Mobilitat professional
- dc.title Occupational choice and developmenten
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleen
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