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discuss possible effects on labor productivity, wages, and human capital. We also show that the fast-growing dependency ratio …
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Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that something is fundamentally misaligned in the promotion process. This view is unnecessary and inconsistent with the...
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Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...
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minimum wages is bargained at the nation-wide sectoral level. We conclude that, even in the presence of the underlying market …
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taste for children. In particular, our results appear to be driven by a declining substitution effect to increasing wages …
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We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise … within 1 cent of each other received new wages that differed by 10 cents. First, we estimate a regression discontinuity (RD …) model based on own wages; we find large causal effects of wages on quits, with quit elasticities less than -10. Next, we …
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We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...
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In this paper we study the decline in total fertility rates in the Czech Republic during the transition process. To identify transition-specific features of this decline we use a multiperiod model of birth process and apply it to the family and fertility survey of 1998. In a standard duration...
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Using the monthly samples of the Current Population Survey (CPS) outgoing rotation group files, this paper analyzes the most recent increase in the U.S. minimum wage rate. This study focuses on immigrant and native-born workers who are employed in industries with low and high immigrant...
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