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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1997
We provide a test for statistical discrimination or rational stereotyping in in environments in which agents learn over time. Our application is to the labor market. If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily...
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Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1996
If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure credential value of education will depend on how quickly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473426
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Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
We study urban, private sector Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...
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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level
Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …-school pursuits to examine the generality of these anecdotes. On average, student athletes' benefit- often substantially so--in terms …
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The Hot Hand in the NBA 3-Point Contest : The Importance of Location, Location, Location
Lantis, Robert M.; Nesson, Erik T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Do basketball players exhibit a hot hand? Results from controlled shooting situations suggest the answer is yes, while results from in-game shooting are mixed. Are the differing results because a hot hand is only present in similar shots or because testing for the hot hand in game situations is...
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No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team …-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post …-graduate education and career choices as well as career outcomes. In terms of industry choice, athletes are far more likely to go into …
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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...
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Surviving the Fintech Disruption
Jiang, Wei; Tang, Yuehua; Xiao, Jiqiu; Yao, Wenxiong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how demand for labor reacts to financial technology (fintech) shocks based on comprehensive databases of fintech patents and firm job postings in the U.S. during the past decade. We first develop a measure of fintech exposure at the occupation level by intersecting the textual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510601
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The Demand for Executive Skills
Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...
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