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Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2003

The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the … more general model differ substantially from inferences drawn from estimates based on a Mincer earnings regression …

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003

China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use … effect on earnings of sending a randomly selected person to college is a 43% increase in lifetime earnings (nearly 11 …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our …

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James Joseph; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006

A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...

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The technology of skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007

This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....

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