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Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets
Pallais, Amanda - 2013
Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this information is public, workers obtain … determine the effects of hiring workers and revealing more information about their abilities through a field experiment in an …
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Skill Biased Structural Change
Buera, Francisco J. - 2015
We document for a broad panel of advanced economies that increases in GDP per capita are associated with a shift in the composition of value added to sectors that are intensive in high-skill labor. It follows that further development in these economies leads to an increase in the relative demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022602
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Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement : Evidence from Two Experiments
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … disadvantaged students when parents have easy access to test score information and have good options to choose from …
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Learning and (or) Doing : Human Capital Investments and Optimal Taxation
Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2015
-or-doing" (when labor and training are substitutes, like for college). Agents' abilities and labor supply are private information to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019119
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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
Engel, Mimi - 2011
during the summer of 2006 and collected detailed information on the specific schools at which teachers interviewed. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129221
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment Over the Life Cycle
Gervais, Martin - 2014
Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044973
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Sorting between and within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
Abowd, John M. - 2014
workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …
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The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019
American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869066
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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function : The Power of Words
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2016
elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …
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