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This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … representative data from the German Employment Survey, the paper finds that routine job tasks are negatively and significantly … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …
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Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
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, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the empirical analysis of a rich Dutch longitudinal data set of firm …
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there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …
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In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and applied - imply different investment patterns. As it turns out, thereading intensity of advanced theoretical and empirical literature declines with three to fourpercent per year...
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In response to technological change, U.S. corporations have been investing more in intangible capital. This transformation is empirically associated with lower leverage and greater cash holdings, and commonly explained as a precautionary response to reduced debt capacity. We model how firms'...
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language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job … with lower proficiency levels are not selected into employment in the first place. …
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab experiments … colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and although there …
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