This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the post-acquisition wage effect depending on the nationality of the foreign acquirer and the skill group of workers. We find sizable post acquisition...

BACKGROUND Globally postnatal care (PNC) of the newborn is being promoted as a strategy to reduce neonatal deaths, yet few studies have looked at associations between early PNC and neonatal outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we look at the associations of PNC provided on day 1 and by day 7 of life by type of provider - skilled (doctor, midwife or nurse or unskilled (traditional birth...

This paper examines employment careers of immigrants as compared to the native-born in Germany and the United Kingdom, two countries which differ with respect to several factors potentially influencing immigrant integration in the host society and particularly immigration policies, labour market regulation and welfare regimes. To this end the existing longitudinal data from the German Socio-Eco...

Why is there such wide-spread opposition to immigration, although attitudes are generally favorable towards trade? Using concepts from population ethics, this paper shows that impartial observers oppose unskilled immigration if they are inequality-averse, base their decisions on national interest, and have an integrative view of immigration. Moreover, unskilled immigration makes redistribution ...

Farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. Yet, they lack adequate and needed information. Hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. Primary data were collected to elicit infor...

We study a model of tax competition between two countries when both skilled and unskilled workers make their migration decisions simultaneously and wages are endogenously determined. If both factors of production are allowed to migrate freely and when the demand for skilled labor is not so elastic, the problem typically predicted in the literature of tax competition that increased mobility of p...

China experienced drastic economic openness and industrialization from 1860s to 1936. However, little quantitative evidence has been collected to study the extents and impacts of these changes. This project estimates nominal wage series in nearly fifty Chinese cities from 1858 to 1936 using newly constructed Maritime Custom employees’ wage data. It also constructs cost of living indices on the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine whether the high mortality in lower salaried men in Norway was related to an inflow into this group of unskilled workers with high mortality. DESIGN Individual information on occupation was derived from the 1970 and the 1980 censuses and linked to mortality data for the period 1980-5 by the official, individual identification numbers. PARTICIPANTS...

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing an integrated assembly line when many skilled and unskilled workers are available. This problem arises when there are certain limited resources available such as skilled workers in which the operation time for every task is different depending on assignment of the unskilled workers to help the skilled workers. The selection of both skilled wor...