Sökning: "skill premium"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden skill premium.

1. 1. Female Labor Supply and Earnings Inequality Under Skill-Biased Technological Change

   D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Jörn Onken; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Female Labor Supply; Skill-Biased Technological Change; Earnings Inequality; Family Economics; Aggregate Productivity;

   Sammanfattning : The gender education gap has reversed, women today account for the majority of college graduates. At the same time, skill-biased technological change strongly rewards highly-educated workers through the increased skill premium. In this thesis, I analyze the implications of combining these two facts through a heterogeneous agent model using U.S. LÄS MER

3. 2. Wages in comparison. Scandinavia in the early modern period: Evidence from Scania

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Kathryn Gary; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Little Divergence; Sweden; Stockholm; Denmark; Scania; Scandinavia; wages; real wages; skill premium; women’s relative wages; early modern era; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This study utilizes new archival data to develop a series of wages for unskilled workers, skilled worker, and women from early modern Scania in the south of modern-day Sweden. These series are used in combination with already-published data on builders’ wages in Stockholm and other European regions to further the understanding of Scandinavia’s position in early modern Europe during the Little Divergence. LÄS MER

4. 3. Can Theories of Skill-Biased Technological Change Explain the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Finland since 1970?

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Jessica Finnilä; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Skill premium; wage inequality; technological change; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Wage inequality has increased in many OECD countries since the 1970s. Many have explained this development in terms of skill-biased technological change. LÄS MER

5. 4. International Legal Framework for Protection of Intellectual Property under the TRIPs Agreement/the WTO & Related Human Rights Issues of Dissemination & Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology - A critique of conflicting rights

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Författare :Abid Hussein Khan; [2003]
   Nyckelord :Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : Recent history of contemporary world has substantiated the fact that the secret of enjoying technological and economic leadership, lies in placing a high premium on the system and content of intellectual property (IP) rights. Nations that do so are reaping the fruit of their timely decision and are seen as role models for economic growth. LÄS MER