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Choice of majors : are women really different from men?
Kugler, Adriana D.; Tinsley, Catherine H.; Ukhaneva, Olga - 2017
Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related classes explains gender differences in the final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique...
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...
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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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Manufacturing employment and exchange rates in the Portuguese economy : the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … rigidity ; technology …
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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Hemelt, Steven W. (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...
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Do trustees and administrators matter? : diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George; Martin, Mirinda L. - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...
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