Author : Gregory Michael Kurtzon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Occupational Choice, the Effects of Skill Supply on Relative Wages, and Capital-skill Correlation by : Gregory Michael Kurtzon
Download or read book Occupational Choice, the Effects of Skill Supply on Relative Wages, and Capital-skill Correlation written by Gregory Michael Kurtzon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many policies attempt to reduce income inequality by encouraging education and restricting immigration, based on the idea that similarly skilled workers are substitutes and differently skilled workers are complements. With more highly skilled workers and less low skilled workers, high skilled wages would fall and low skilled wages would rise. This paper theoretically develops, provides empirical evidence for, estimates a structural version of, and simulates a new model that explains this effect with differently skilled workers choosing different, complementary occupations. Workers change occupations when wages change, with the result that education subsidies can make low skilled workers worse off when high skilled workers enter their occupations. In addition, immigration can aid low skilled workers by making it beneficial to move into previously higher skilled occupations.