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This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …
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How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...
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We identify a puzzling management practice gap in China. In the South, a one standard deviation increase in firms …' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability ….1 percent in management practices and in all aspects of administration. We conjecture this is partially related to the …
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administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show that nearly all recent borrowers with annual incomes above $40 …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
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institutions. We design and conduct the world’s first management practices survey in these colleges (based on the World Management … controls suggest that structured management matters for educational outcomes (e.g. upper secondary qualifications), especially … percentile of management practices to the 90th, this would be associated with 8% higher probability of achieving a good high …
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We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...
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We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
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We construct a tractable discrete-time overlapping generations model of a closed economy and use it to study government redistribution of accidental bequests and private annuities in general equilibrium. Individuals face longevity risk as there is a positive probability of passing away before...
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