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disorders on employment and conditional work hours and income. Two-stage instrumental variables methods were used to correct for …
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This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...
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A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects of the marginal Social Security benefits that accrue with additional...
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permanent income hypothesis and the Keynesian consumption model using a dynamic factor model of consumption, hours, wages …, unemployment, and income. We show that a quarterly dynamic factor model with restrictions on the lag structure nay be used with … at different time intervals and/or are aggregates for the calendar year. By using several income indicators we are able …
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intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second …
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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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wage penalty. As a consequence, individuals working typically 40 hours are not very responsive to variation in productivity …
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In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … outside wage offers, and the effects of seniority on job changes. We provide estimates of the dynamic response of wage rates … short run as well a substantial long long-term effect that operates through the wage rate. Shocks associated with job …
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. We then present an interpretation of these features in terms of both a life-cycle labor supply model and a fixed-wage …
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Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement Study, we provide a set of facts about vacation … leave and its relationship to hours worked, hours constraints, wage rates, worker characteristics, spouse's vacation leave … government workers, that hourly wage rates have a strong positive relationship with paid vacation weeks both in the cross section …
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