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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2009

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966-2017

Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates the contribution of human capital, measured using both educational attainment and test performance, to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning 1966 through 2017. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the...

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A Framework for Sharing Confidential Research Data, Applied to Investigating Differential Pay by Race in the U. S. Government

Barrientos, Andrés F. - 2017

Data stewards seeking to provide access to large-scale social science data face a difficult challenge. They have to share data in ways that protect privacy and confidentiality, are informative for many analyses and purposes, and are relatively straightforward to use by data analysts. We present...

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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms

Sauermann, Henry - 2017

We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...

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The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills : Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence

Attanasio, Orazio - 2020

This paper investigates the evolution of socio-emotional skills over the life cycle and across generations. We start by characterising the evolution of these skills in the first part of the life cycle. We then examine whether parents' socio-emotional skills in early childhood rather than in...

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The Ruble Collapse in an Online Marketplace : Some Lessons for Market Designers

Horton, John J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The sharp devaluation of the ruble in 2014 increased the real returns to Russians from working in a global online labor … marketplace, as contracts in this market are dollar-denominated. Russians clearly noticed the opportunity, with Russian hours …-worked increasing substantially, primarily on the extensive margin--incumbent Russians already active were fairly inelastic. Contrary to …

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Cognitive Mobility : Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas

Borjas, George J. - 2012

Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...

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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have "soft" skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking and adaptability. This paper documents growing demand for decision-making and explores the consequences...

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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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