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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2007

survey instruments with behavioral economics experiments. The survey data include information on demographics, risk and loss … design goals are to discover the extent to which the survey and experimental measures are correlated, and whether and how …

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The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing improved information to principals about...

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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2020

vocational training and examine their impacts on skills acquisition and labor market outcomes using both survey and …

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The Mommy Track Divides : The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels

Wilde, Elizabeth Ty - 2010

This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for high-skill women, but we find the opposite. Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after, but...

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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2006

The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...

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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

García-Pérez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from California Community Colleges

Stevens, Ann Huff - 2015

Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the returns to specific certificates and degrees. We estimate returns to CTE programs using administrative data from...

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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties : Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market

Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal, worker-level data on biomedical doctorates, we investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary...

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How Worker Productivity and Wages Grow with Tenure and Experience : The Firm Perspective

Caplin, Andrew; Lee, Minjoon; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

data. This paper introduces direct measurement of worker productivity in a firm survey designed to separate the role of on … heterogeneity across jobs in the extent to which previous experience substitutes for tenure. The survey makes use of administrative … data to construct a representative sample of firms, check for selective non-response, validate survey measures with …

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