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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …

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The Legacies of the Soviet Influence in the 1950s: China's 156 Major Industrial Projects

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2021

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that the adoption of...

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The Gender Pay Gap in the US: A Matching Study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into “explained” and “unexplained” components....

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Reformatory Policies and Factor Prices in a Developing Economy with Informal Sector

Mandal, Biswajit; Ghosh, Sujata - 2019

Effects of different reformatory policies have always been a pulsating concern for the researchers and policy makers. Considering this concern, this paper attempts to check various effects of reformatory policies such as labor market reform, tariff cut, change in subsidy, bureaucratic reform in...

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The Role of Locus of Control in Education, Occupation, Income and Healthy Habits: Evidence from Australian Twins

Xue, Sen; Kidd, Michael P.; Le, Anh T.; Kirk, Kathy; … - 2019

The role of non-cognitive skills in socio-economic behavior is a burgeoning research area in economics. Much interest is focused on the personality trait, locus of control, a measure of the extent to which individuals believe their fate is self-determined. The existing empirical literature...

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The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the USA

Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...

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The gender wage gap among PhD holders: an empirical examination based on Italian data

Alfano, Vincenzo; Cicatiello, Lorenzo; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio - 2019

of specialization, and that such a gap is largely unexplained. …

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The Microeconomic Impacts of Employee Representatives: Evidence from Membership Thresholds

Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

Employee representatives in firms are a potentially key but not yet studied source of the impact of unions and works councils. Their actions can shape multiple drivers of firm performance, including collective bargaining, strikes, and training. This paper examines the impact of union rep...

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Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers

Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...

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Rent sharing in China: Magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find evidence of rent sharing (RS), with wage-profit...

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