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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well‐being...

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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Growth and Welfare Under Endogenous Lifetime

Schneider, Maik T. - 2017

We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...

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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms

Hjort, Jonas - 2013

evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …

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Shocking Racial Attitudes : Black G.I.s in Europe

Schindler, David; Westcott, Mark - 2021

Can attitudes towards minorities, an important cultural trait, be changed? We show that the presence of African American soldiers in the U.K. during World War II reduced anti-minority prejudice, a result of the positive interactions which took place between soldiers and the local population. The...

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Black and White Labor Market Outcomes in the 19th Century American South

Carson, Scott A. - 2021

being farmers and unskilled workers were comparable by race. However, whites had greater access to white-collar and skilled …

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Growing Productivity Without Growing Wages : The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline

Kehrig, Matthias - 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor : Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2021

('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare …

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