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Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
Altonji, Joseph G.; Pierret, Charles R. - 2021
use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …
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Seeing and Hearing : The Impacts of New York City’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program on the Health of Low-Income Children
Hong, Kai - 2019
We examine the effect of New York City's universal pre-kindergarten program (UPK) on the health and utilization of children enrolled in Medicaid using a difference-in-regression- discontinuities design. We find that UPK increases the probability that a child is diagnosed with asthma or with...
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Worker Absence and Productivity : Evidence from Teaching
Herrmann, Mariesa A - 2010
A significant amount of work time is lost each year due to worker absence, but evidence on the productivity losses from absenteeism remains scant due to difficulties with identification. In this paper, we use uniquely detailed data on the timing, duration, and cause of absences among teachers to...
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
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Rising Labor Productivity During the 2008-9 Recession
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011
During the recession of 2008-9, labor hours fell sharply, while wages and output per hour rose. Some, but not all, of the productivity and wage increase can be attributed to changing quality of the workforce. The rest of the increase appears to be due to increases in production inputs other than...
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Unconditional Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...
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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism : Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes
Brav, Alon - 2011
This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...
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The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors : Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment Using China's Great Famine
Meng, Xin - 2013
This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity of famine derived from...
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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
Burda, Michael C. - 2012
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...
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