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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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In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on … individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per … cent of a standard deviation. This translates to an average performance increase of about 75 per cent within the first year …
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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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We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
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cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience …
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experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …
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