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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David - 2017
, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455509
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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk
Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794639
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Measuring the Gig Economy : Current Knowledge and Open Issues
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018
administrative data paint a different picture, with the former showing little evidence of the growth in self-employment that would be … individual-level survey and administrative records shows that a large and growing fraction of those with self-employment activity … in administrative data have no such activity recorded in household survey data. The share of those with self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480603
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Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment : Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
Conley, Dalton - 2010
Caspi et al. (2002, 2003), Guo et al. (2008a), and Pescosolido et al. (2008) all claim to have demonstrated allele-by-environment interactions, but in all cases environmental influences are potentially endogenous to the unmeasured genetic characteristics of the subjects and their families. Thus,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462627
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Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2008
consequence of these differences, the various requirements of employment law cannot simultaneously be satisfied. Further, if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464183
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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth : Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2008
changes in the distribution of observable skills affect employment and wages. We also use more standard regression methods to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464764
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Killer Incentives : Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II
Ager, Philipp - 2016
A growing theoretical and empirical literature shows that public recognition can lead employees to exert greater effort. However, status competition is also associated with excessive expenditure on status goods, greater likelihood of bankruptcy, and more risk taking by money managers. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455688
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456136
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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?
Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2016
Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456231
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Allocating Time : Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization
Pollak, Robert A. - 2011
In an efficient household if the spouses' time inputs are perfect substitutes, then spouses will "specialize" regardless of their preferences and the governance structure. That is, both spouses will not allocate time to both household production and the market sector. The perfect substitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461129