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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2006

In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of enrollment in community colleges on...

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Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety : A Field Study in Urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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The productivity-wage premium : does size still matter in a service economy?

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Calligaris, Sara; Criscuolo, Chiara - 2018

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Benefits of internationalisation for acquirers and targets - but unevenly distributed

Frey, Rainer; Goldbach, Stefan - 2021

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

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Automation and rent dissipation : implications for wages, inequality, and productivity

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2024

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Working from home : heterogeneous effects on hours worked and wages

Arntz, Melanie; Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco - 2019

Working from home (WfH) has become much more common since the early 2000s. We exploit the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1997 and 2014 to investigate how such a work arrangement affects labour market outcomes and life satisfaction. We find that childless employees work an extra hour per...

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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market

Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017

This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...

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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge

Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014

This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...

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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...

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Automation and polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … of capital (or an increase in capital productivity) causes employment and wage polarization. Specifically, further … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of …

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