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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labour Economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Managerial Leverage is Limited By the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization and the Utilization of Lawyers' Human Capital
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services. We show how the...
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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians....
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take into account different probabilities of entering the...
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Is the Division of Labour Limited By the Extent of the Market? Evidence from French Cities
Duranton, Gilles; Jayet, Hubert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper provides some evidence that the division of labour is limited by the extent of the (local) market. We first propose a theoretical model. Its main prediction is that scarce occupations are over-represented in large cities. Using census data for French cities, we then provide strong...
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Can We Measure Hospital Quality from Physicians' Choices?
Machado, Matilde Pinto; Mora, Ricardo; Romero-Medina, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology for ranking hospitals based on the choices of Medical School graduates over hospital training vacancies. Our methodology is therefore a revealed preference approach. Our methodology for measuring relative hospital quality has the following...
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …
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Run For Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance
Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … and firms when individual productivity would have been perfectly observable. From our analysis we conclude that individual … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …
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Age, wage and productivity
Stoeldraijer, Lenny; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …
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