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This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document...
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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of … firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …
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Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and re-examined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model to correct for both worker and workplace unobserved...
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This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production …, especially for males and in the physical sciences in the U.S. A higher rate of growth of non-farm productivity encouraged PhD …
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The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel … productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and whether this relationship is affected by various contextual factors … adoption of a profit sharing program and subsequent productivity growth in both panels, but only among establishments that …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry …-specific. -- Productivity ; workplace practices ; linked employer-employee data ; information technologies …
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centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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In this paper, we use linked employer-employee administrative tax data from Canada to estimate the impact of payroll … in the payroll tax rate to estimate its impact on the firm's level of employment, average wage and productivity, with … employment, productivity and profits, but significant impacts on wages, implying that payroll taxes are passed almost entirely to …
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We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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