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Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok; Yariv, Leeat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study dynamic task allocation when providers' expertise evolves endogenously through training. We characterize optimal assignment protocols and compare them to discretionary procedures, where it is the clients who select their service providers. Our results indicate that welfare gains from...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2011

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...

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The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions : Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program

Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel...

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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...

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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry

Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

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Dissecting Green Returns

Pástor, Ľuboš; Stambaugh, Robert F.; Taylor, Lucian A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Green assets delivered high returns in recent years. This performance reflects unexpectedly strong increases in environmental concerns, not high expected returns. German green bonds outperformed their higher-yielding non-green twins as the "greenium" widened, and U.S. green stocks outperformed...

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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …

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