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The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
Borra, Cristina - 2012
This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children …'s cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly … associated with higher cognitive test scores, by around one tenth of a standard deviation. The association between breastfeeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104046
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823318
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Adjusting to Skill Shortages:Complexity and Consequences
Healy, Joshua; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countriesincluding the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about theirprevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understandingabout these issues by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522200
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Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136303
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio - 2010
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136494
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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage Over the Medium-Term
Dolton, Peter - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136496
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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation : Internal Dynamics
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways ﾖ immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139877
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139879
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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality : Assessing the Role of Reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117408
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Adjusting to Skill Shortages : Complexity and Consequences
Healy, Joshua - 2011
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understanding about these issues by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118518