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Time of Day, Cognitive Tasks and Efficiency Gains

Gaggero, Alessio; Tommasi, Denni - 2020

The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and welfare. We study the performance of University students taking at most one exam per day in the final two weeks of the semester. Exams are scheduled at different time-of-day in a...

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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013

Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoît - 2014

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

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Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018

Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...

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The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Naudé, Wim - 2019

After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...

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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019

Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...

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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...

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The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants

Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024

We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...

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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture

Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2014

This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living in a particular host country (and exposed...

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