different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. Somewhat … overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …

We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we … earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory earnings, and exploit variation of tenure and instability over time … temporary contracts (short-tenure contracts). Our results indicate that each year of tenure on the job reduces earnings …

Using an agency model, we show how delegation, by generating additional private information, improves dynamic …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

and parents' wage earnings. It surveys the international literature to establish how the problem has been approached and … survey data for the Philippines to explain what determines the decision to seek a job and the earnings of both mothers and … the earnings equations. …

different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …