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This paper investigates whether people's ability to withstand and adapt to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – is determined early on in childhood. Using nationally representative longitudinal data that tracks almost 3,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative...
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This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
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and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent …
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Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics … entire economy (as opposed to case study evidence) on the effects of the nature and scope of human capital on career success … formally through schooling for career success, as well as the gender gap in career success rates. Second, broadening the scope …
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We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...
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In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing … firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on … working hours. When effortbased career opportunities are effective, they raise working time and output per worker reducing …
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This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
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percent over the course of an average career as compared to a small birth cohort counterpart. The loss in earnings is driven … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are …
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on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We … are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these …
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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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