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compensating differential. We show that immoral work is associated with higher wages, both using correlational evidence from …
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …
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expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We...
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wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …
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