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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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Based on patterns of employment transitions, we identify three different types of workers in the US labor market: α's β …'s and γ's. Workers of type α make up over half of all workers, are most likely to remain on the same job for more than 2 … years and, when they become unemployed, typically find a new job within 1 quarter. Workers of type γ comprise less than one …
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We develop a tractable general equilibrium model for understanding within- and between-occupation changes in skill use over time. We apply the model to skill-use measures from the third, fourth, and revised fourth editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and data from the 1960, 1970,...
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- and blue-collar coworkers of the inventor. First results suggest that older workers are hurt by the arrival of an … STEM-educated co-workers. This result suggests that retraining programs could be helpful in making the process of creative …
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Academics, the media, and policymakers have all raised concerns about the implications of human workers being replaced … workers. We show that this flexibility can help new firms overcome uncertainty and increase entrepreneurial entry. We develop …
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Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …
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Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers … evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We …. In addition, workers report higher levels of happiness and positive mood. The evidence suggests that these results are …
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This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i ….e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …
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We document that declining hours worked are the primary driver of widening inequality in the bottom half of the male labor earnings distribution in the United States over the past 52 years. This decline in hours is heavily concentrated in recessions: hours and earnings at the bottom fall sharply...
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What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by … ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically … workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March …
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