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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus … on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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included information about mathematics and reading scores and student demographics such as gender, race, and SES. Teacher …
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actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …
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Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
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United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and …
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This paper analyzes the contribution of the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the pool of employed and unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the business cycle. Using individual level data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we...
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The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...
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Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
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