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times larger for workers who had been bullied a lot in their early life. We also find zero adaptation to unemployment for …
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This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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that this provides an upper bound estimate of the contribution of changes in work experience and other post …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
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generations of individuals, and endogenous education decisions. Human capital is made of two substitutable components, experience …
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The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity and...
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of the employment relationship. Furthermore, we show that there are peer effects in learning on-the-job: Workers placed …
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Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the … worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience …
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result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have challenged this assumption and claimed … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
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