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This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...
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histories in Germany between 1975 and 2010. We estimate difference-in-differences models, using a sample in which we match …
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through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for …
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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense …
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underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …
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This paper utilises a multi-country microsimulation tax-benefit model for Europe, EUROMOD, to simulate the distribution of net replacement rates for 13 European countries. We look at different types of labour market transitions by comparing household incomes in the current state with simulated...
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higher probability of failure. These findings could have important implications for our understanding of individual career …
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We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
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-lasting effects on career trajectories. Women are substantially less likely than men to win future elections and to climb the …
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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 women who closely win versus closely lose a state legislature … several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a …
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