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Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016

Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...

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Macroeconomic determinants of retirement timing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Song, Jae; Stolyarov, Dmitriy - 2013

We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of partially retired workers has risen dramatically (from virtually 0 to 15...

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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and 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...

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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...

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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

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The wage returns to on-the-job training : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Almeida, Rita; Faria, Marta Lince de - 2014

Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...

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Money on the table? : firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility

Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...

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The effect of sexual activity on wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

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