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careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career …
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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
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geographic transitions, less desirable to workers. …
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This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). Consistent with the model, results from administrative data show that teachers have causal...
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Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing …
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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 workers are more likely to be in matches that represent a poor …
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In this paper, we estimate the influence of social relationships on educational attainment and social outcomes of students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school affect students'...
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One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary negotiations. By using a natural field experiment that randomizes nearly 2,500 job-seekers into jobs that vary important details of the labor contract, we are able to observe both the...
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This study investigates the professional soccer industry to ask whether the talent of an individual's co-workers helps …
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unemployment to employment in routine occupations, (ii) that from labor force non-participation to routine employment, and (iii …
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