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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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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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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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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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Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions

Regan, Tracy L.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...

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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...

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