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Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …

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Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century

Gray, Rowena; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Quincy, Sarah; Ward, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We present new evidence on the long-run trend of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitive-intensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred from 1960...

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Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties : Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market

Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal, worker-level data on biomedical doctorates, we investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary...

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Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more fully by Goldin and Katz (2007). I also review...

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...

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The Geography of Job Tasks

Atalay, Enghin; Sotelo, Sebastian; Tannenbaum, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce new measurement tools to understand the sources of earnings differences across space. Based on the natural language employers use in job vacancy text, we develop granular measures of job tasks and of worker specialization. We find that jobs in larger commuting zones involve greater...

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International College Students' Impact on the US Skilled Labor Supply

Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of these remain in the US after graduating and contribute to the high skilled labor supply in US labor markets. In this paper, we identify and estimate by how much one more...

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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact

Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data set linking the universe of North Carolina public school data to administrative arrest records, we find a standard deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7...

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Screening with Multitasking

Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately, state-level data. I show that...

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