We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a … large at the top of the skill distribution. In Norway declining skills across cohorts are more prevalent at the bottom of …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different … childbearing in both the United States and Norway, and these results are quite robust to various specification checks. Somewhat … by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different …

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …