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Sorting between and within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
Abowd, John M. - 2014
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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Overconfidence and Occupational Choice
Lazear, Edward P. - 2016
A statistical theory of overconfidence is proposed and applied to the issue of occupational choice. Individuals who can choose whether to engage in an activity or not must estimate their performance. The estimates have error and that error has positive expectation among those who engage in the...
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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
-occupation match? To help answer questions like these, we propose an empirical measure of multidimensional skill mismatch, which is … mismatch depress wage growth in the current occupation, it also leaves a scarring effect—by stunting skill acquisition …—that reduces wages in future occupations. Mismatch also predicts different aspects of occupational switching behavior. We construct …
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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...
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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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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity : Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System
Imberman, Scott A. - 2012
Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests, we estimate the impact of incentive strength on student achievement. These awards are based on the performances of students within a grade, school and subject,...
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Cost-Sharing and Productivity
Gibson, Teresa - 2012
A growing body of literature examines the cross price elasticities between different health care services. For example, increasing the patient out of pocket price for some health care services increases the utilization of other health care services. Yet, the literature has generally ignored the...
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The Value of Bosses
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...
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The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration : Evidence from Indonesia
Bryan, Gharad - 2017
We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia, accounting for worker selection and spatial differences in human capital. We distinguish between movement costs, which mean workers will only move if they expect higher wages, and...
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Industrial Productivity in a Hotter World : The Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Firm Investment in Air Conditioning
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2016
How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate conditions and economic activity across a nation's cities will together determine industrial average exposure to climate risk. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat...
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