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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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Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and reexamined 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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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 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 …
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Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...
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We use data from the Survey of Consumer Finance and Survey of Income Program Participation to show that young households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent...
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The profitability of life insurance offerings is contingent on accurate projections and pricing of mortality risk. The COVID-19 pandemic created significant uncertainty, with dire mortality predictions from early forecasts resulting in widespread government intervention and greater individual...
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The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community-rated premiums, guaranteed issue coverage, and the existence of a well-functioning individual market as a substitute. Using administrative payroll and healthcare claims data from...
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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
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