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This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …
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