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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills

Brambilla, Irene - 2015

This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …

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High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms

Borovičková, Katarína - 2017

We develop a new approach to measuring the correlation between the types of matched workers and firms. Our approach accurately measures the correlation in data sets with many workers and firms, but a small number of independent observations for each. Using administrative data from Austria, we...

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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

Mocan, Naci H. - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality and skill-biased technological change, we employ CPS data to create state-year as well as state-year-and (broad) industry specific measures of skill-biased technological...

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The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where They Work

Barth, Erling - 2017

This paper uses linked establishment-firm-employee data to examine the relationship between the scientists and engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers in industry are employed in establishments producing goods...

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This Job is 'Getting Old : ' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David H. - 2010

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Reaching for the Stars : Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?

Haltiwanger, John - 2010

Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data, this paper makes a key connection between talent and firms in markets with risky product innovations. We show that software...

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A Framework for Sharing Confidential Research Data, Applied to Investigating Differential Pay by Race in the U. S. Government

Barrientos, Andrés; Bolton, Alexander; Balmat, Tom; … - 2021

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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm

Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

In this paper I use data from a survey of firms to estimate the effects of a firm's wage level on several measures of its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience and current tenure of its employees; subjective...

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The Impact of Firm Acquisitions on Labor

Brown, Charles; Medoff, James L. - 2021

In this paper, we investigate the changes in wages and employment following a firm's involvement in an acquisition, compared with firms not involved in acquisitions. Contrary to the tenor of popular press coverage of acquisitions, which focuses on hostile takeovers of large firms, we find small...

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques; Greenan, Nathalie - 2021

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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