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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465538
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Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
Harrigan, James - 2018
We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its bias towards skilled occupations. We use a novel measure of the propensity of a firm to engage in technology investment and adoption: its employment of workers with STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480946
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Entrepreneurial Reluctance : Talent and Firm Creation in China
Bai, Chong-En; Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin; Wang, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The theoretical literature has long noted that talent can be used in both the entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial sectors, and its allocation depends on the reward structure. We test these hypotheses by linking administrative college admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the...
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Skill Biased Structural Change
Buera, Francisco J. - 2015
We document for a broad panel of advanced economies that increases in GDP per capita are associated with a shift in the composition of value added to sectors that are intensive in high-skill labor. It follows that further development in these economies leads to an increase in the relative demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457502
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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
To study the short-run and long-run implications on wage inequality, we introduce directed technical change into a Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced from a continuum of intermediates (tasks). Some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460066
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...
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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China
Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018
unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …, we find that the CEO's management scores are the most predictive of firm performance, followed by the senior managers and …
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Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill
O'Shaughnessy, K.C. - 2000
We examine the relationship between wages and skill requirements in a sample of over 50,000 managers in 39 companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471020
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How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Reuter, Jonathan - 2010
The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462327
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The dark side of outside directors : Do they quit when they are most needed?
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2010
Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...
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