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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …

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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

Brown, J. David - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings : A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Arias, Omar - 2009

This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...

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Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rocha, Rudi - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers 2021-2022 Edition

Nikolov, Plamen - 2022

This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers …

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

The past half‐century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...

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Antidepressants for Economists and Business-School Researchers : An Introduction and Review

Katolik, Aleksandra - 2017

researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …

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Current Emotion Research in Economics

Wälde, Klaus - 2016

Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical … economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral economics more recently reintroduced feelings in …

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Women in Economics : Stalled Progress

Lundberg, Shelly - 2018

within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past …

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng - 2018

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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