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Determinants Of Voluntary Job-To-Job Mobility, Xiaolin Xing, Zhenlin Yang
Determinants Of Voluntary Job-To-Job Mobility, Xiaolin Xing, Zhenlin Yang
Research Collection School Of Economics
This paper explores both observable and unobservable variables that would affect employed workers’ decisions on job change. A survey was conducted through one-to-one interviews, and the sample consists of 965 full-time employed workers. The logistic regression models are employed to analyze the two binary measures of job-to-job mobility: i) whether an individual is considering a job change, and ii) whether an individual is actively looking for another job. We find that age, job satisfaction, satisfaction with working environment or job security, and firm size are among the major factors determining workers’ job-to-job mobility. Younger workers and workers in smaller firms …
Catch-Up Growth Based On International Talent Mobility In An Idea-Based World, Yu Quan, Hian Teck Hoon
Catch-Up Growth Based On International Talent Mobility In An Idea-Based World, Yu Quan, Hian Teck Hoon
Research Collection School Of Economics
We show how catch-up growth can result when immigrant ties of talented people to their home countries facilitate technology diffusion from world technological leaders to developing countries. The aspect of immigrant link we focus on is knowledge spillover through various programs of international exchange to draw upon the expertise of the individuals who have migrated—a type of externality effect on the home country. In our model, we distinguish between public technology and private technology, both of which differ across countries. The size of the talent pool in each country determines the number of skilled workers and indigenous technology levels. The …
Service Links And Wage Inequality, Kong Weng Ho, Hian Teck Hoon
Service Links And Wage Inequality, Kong Weng Ho, Hian Teck Hoon
Research Collection School Of Economics
In our general equilibrium model, the variety of specialized service links affects international production fragmentation in manufacturing. Decreases in cost of education or fixed cost of service links raise the relative supply of skilled workers, increase service specialization, and decrease the price of aggregate services. Consequently, the market for service- and skill-intensive component manufacturing enlarges, raising relative demand for skilled workers. Empirically, endogenous change in international outsourcing rather than skill-biased technological progress is the main reason for a modest decline in wage gap despite the rapid rise in relative supply of skilled workers in Singapore from 1978 to 2000.
Low-Wage Employment Subsidies In A Labor-Turnover Model Of The `Natural Rate, Hian Teck Hoon, Edmund S. Phelps
Low-Wage Employment Subsidies In A Labor-Turnover Model Of The `Natural Rate, Hian Teck Hoon, Edmund S. Phelps
Research Collection School Of Economics
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