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Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement

Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2022

market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when … histories in Germany between 1975 and 2010. We estimate difference-in-differences models, using a sample in which we match … occupational change eleven fold, and that the type of skill mismatch after displacement is strongly associated with the magnitude …

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Does Information Affect Homophily?

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the popularity of these programs, there is little evidence on whether mentees value mentors with shared traits. Using novel administrative data from an online college mentoring...

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Size matters!: body height and labor market discrimination : a cross-European analysis

Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - 2009

Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...

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The consequences of being different: Statistical discrimination and the school-to-work transition

Mueller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...

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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms

Hjort, Jonas - 2013

A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...

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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2016

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Kunze, Astrid - 2017

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...

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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017

In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...

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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Elections

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen; Reeves, … - 2019

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...

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