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The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience

Ruhm, Christopher; Baum, Charles L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...

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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics

Berman, Eli; Iannaccone, Laurence R.; Ragusa, Giuseppe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

changing norms, reduced market wages, and reduced costs of childrearing. We estimate their effects using new panel data on …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …

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Is it all worth it? The experiences of new PhDs on the job market, 2007-2010

McFall, Brooke Helppie; Murray-Close, Marta; Willis, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

information presented in this paper updates findings of prior studies. However, design features of the data used in this paper may …

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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding … authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics …, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. The data allow us to investigate the connections among …

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The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Early Retirement of Public Sector Employees

Slavov, Sita Nataraj; Shoven, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most private sector workers with employer-provided health insurance have a strong incentive to continue working until Medicare eligibility in order to maintain group health coverage. However, most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which allows them access to group...

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Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market

Logan, Trevon D.; Shah, Manisha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Economists argue that rich information environments and formal enforcement of contracts are necessary to prevent market failures when information asymmetries exist. We test for the necessity of formal enforcement to overcome the problems of asymmetric information by estimating the value of...

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Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States

Richter, Susan M.; Taylor, J. Edward; Naude, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the …

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When Knowledge is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the "property rights" approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control important, non-human assets of...

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Optimal Executive Compensation vs. Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation"

Weisbach, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This essay reviews Bebchuk and Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation". Bebchuk and Fried criticize the standard view of executive compensation, in which executives negotiate contracts with shareholders that provide incentives that motivate them to...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G.; Wainwright, Jon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

raise their earnings over the period 1979-2004, using data from the Current Population Survey and the Census, but have … construction such that currently their rate is significantly higher than that of white men. The data are suggestive of the …

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