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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The … reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that …
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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
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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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rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca …
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This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
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experienced a faster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know …
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We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
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"I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and …
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We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and … Survey data on accepted wages and employment durations. We show that it captures almost perfectly the joint distribution of … wages and job spells. We find that the rate of learning-by-doing has an important positive effect on aggregate output and a …
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