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Measuring the Effects of Workloss on Productivity With Team Production
Nicholson, Sean; Pauly, Marc V.; Polsky, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049886
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988
Baker, Michael; Fortin, Nicole M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … wages in ``female jobs'' well as important limitations of public policy in this area. There is little evidence, however … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710471
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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652861
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830793
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588986
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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China
Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756462
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Economic Conditions and Child Abuse
Lindo, Jason M.; Schaller, Jessamyn; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641726
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829989
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The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health
Mocan, Naci H.; Raschke, Christian; Unel, Bulent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951140
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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Marschke, Gerald Roger Marschke, Jr.; Courty, Pascal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
health services relative to the first best allocation increases with occupational (moral hazard) risk. Occupations with risk … health care services offered the differential impact of malpractice risk across occupations, and the recent growth in medical …
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