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-graduate education and career choices as well as career outcomes. In terms of industry choice, athletes are far more likely to go into … advanced STEM degree. In terms of career outcomes, we find that Ivy League athletes outperform their non-athlete counterparts … teams that have lower academic admissions thresholds have higher career outcomes than non-athletes. Collectively, our …
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both do more mentoring and receive more mentorship when near their coworkers. Proximity impacts career trajectories …
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ability; (iii) incentives for effort arising from this uncertainty (career concerns); and (iv) incentives for effort generated … determinants of performance pay. Career-concerns incentives, on which the theoretical literature has focused, and the strength of …
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The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment contracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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We analyze how the legal enforceability of noncompete agreements (NCAs) affects labor markets. Using newly-constructed panel data, we find that higher NCA enforceability diminishes workers' earnings and job mobility, with larger effects among workers most likely to sign NCAs. These effects are...
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This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...
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We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study …
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elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel … dataset, which encompasses detailed information on the compensation and career trajectories of managers within US active … elements alter bonuses. Crucially, fund flows, as opposed to fund performance, exert a strong impact on the career outcomes of …
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Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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This study exploits experimental variation in parent human capital (early-life school-based deworming) and a shock to schooling (extended Covid closures) to estimate how these factors interact in the production of child human capital within a sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with...
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