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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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Innovation, Productivity, and Training
Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu-Tayfur, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...
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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in explaining relative wages. We find that,...
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we utilise waves of the Trinidad and Tobago labour force...
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