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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation … and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth …
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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … leading explanations for occupational employment changes, price and employment growth are positively related. Strong … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …
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Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
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and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …
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effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...
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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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