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Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates how students’ collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763878
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan
Arabsheibani, Reza; Staneva, Anita V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796453
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Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension
Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent research has seen a renewed interest in imposing constraints in nonparametric regression. We survey the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566769
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757347
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822664
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233759
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325424
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289
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Productivity and International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836666
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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