Skill-biased production makes high-skill workers more efficient in rich countries
How does the productivity of different types of workers vary across countries? This column uses micro data from countries at different levels of development to document that highly educated workers are relatively more productive in rich countries. Exploiting variation in the skill premia of foreign-educated migrants, the author concludes that this is mostly due to the
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