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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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Wages, Productivity and Aging
Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566442
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Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand
Asphjell, Magne Krogstad; Letterie, Wilko; Nilsen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants operating in manufacturing industries and it covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765234
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884208
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276087
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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293741
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Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-to-manage, efficient bargaining, labor hoarding) whereas the productivity approach hinges on the assumption of efficient bargaining. Across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457148
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564713
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Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development
Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method. When coupled with ordinary least squares,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969327
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The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822083