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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …

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The Timing of Labor Demand

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene - 2007

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory

Card, David - 2016

We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...

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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap : Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

Card, David - 2015

-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …

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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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Innovation and Market Value

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999

Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The … motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …

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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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