Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdiction...

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...

This paper explores the rationale for unemployment beneÞts as a complement to optimal non-linear income taxation. High-skilled workers and low-skilled workers face different exogenous risks of being unemployed. As long as the low-skilled workers face a higher unemployment risk, we Þnd that there is a case for over-insuring the lowskilled, hence the unemployment beneÞts of the low-skilled should...

This paper explores the rationale for unemployment beneÞts as a complement to optimal non-linear income taxation. High-skilled workers and low-skilled workers face different exogenous risks of being unemployed. As long as the low-skilled workers face a higher unemployment risk, we Þnd that there is a case for over-insuring the lowskilled, hence the unemployment beneÞts of the low-skilled should...

The paper explores the interaction between sector-specific human capital accumulation and sector-specific productivity or demand shocks. Our objective is to better understand the determinants of skill and experience premia, the costs of displacement for workers with long job tenure, and the nature of unemployment among such workers. For example, our model suggests why skilled workers can remain...

In this paper we present a model that addresses the issue of the uneven distribution of employment opportunities over lowand high-skilled workers in a context of skill-biased endogenous technical change. In our model, technical change consists in part of product innovation. There is also process innovation to the extent that new products can be produced in two different ways, either using high-...

uring the 1980s, the gap between the earnings of low-skilled and high-skilled workers grew substantially in the United States. Researchers have advanced a number of arguments to explain the increasing disparity. This article uses descriptive and statistical evidence to evaluate two of the most prominent arguments: increased competition from low-wage developing countries—the “trade” argument—and...

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence which is consisten...

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...

Professional workers in rural and regional areas are often required to be more multi-skilled than their urban counterparts. Education workers are no different from other professional, regional workers in this respect. This paper provides reflections on the early phases of development and implementation of an innovative degree designed to provide for multi-skilled professional rural/regional wor...