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workplace characteristics as well as occupational information relating to the degree of offshorability with industry-level data …
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shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
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minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence development? We add to previous research by … investigating the relationship between preschoolers' self-regulation and their mathematical competence and its development early in …
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existing evidence comes from the top of the education and talent distribution. In this study, we use incentivized choices from … over vocational education in general. At the middle, competitive boys are more likely to choose a business …-oriented apprenticeship, while competitive girls are more likely to choose a math-intensive apprenticeship or an academic education. At the …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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