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The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data. The theory is a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market in which production and the accumulation of human capital of an individual are allowed to depend on the human...
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day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within … links among workers. That is, workers in team-orientated mills have much higher levels of personal connective capital used …
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assigned to the lower-ranked institution. Health outcomes are not related to the physician team assignment, and the estimates …
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stronger among males than females. Further, we examine the causal impact of homophily on team performance. Homophily in … ethnicity increases team performance by lifting teams in bottom quantiles to median performance quantiles, but it does not … ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality …
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This paper analyzes the effects of differential turnover patterns and the existence of firm specific training, jointly financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex differences in occupational distribution and...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic … teachers' biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys' achievements and negative effect … on girls'. Such gender biases also impact students' enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …
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In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of job offers that vary in their...
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This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications …-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more recent cohorts in comparison to older cohorts. We find this pattern …
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