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This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...
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We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
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Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in Africa and addresses whether or not previously held...
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …
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performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
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The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...
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This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …
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competitiveness of the environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the …
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