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Creative Careers : The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
This paper studies life cycle creativity among Nobel laureate economists. We identify two distinct life cycles of … laureate publishes his single best work peaks at age 25 compared to the mid-50s for the most experimental laureate. Thus while …
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Career Expectations and Outcomes : Evidence (on Gender Gaps) from the Economics Job Market
McFall, Brooke Helppie; Parolin, Eric D.; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics. For this purpose, we match rich survey data on PhD candidates (from the 2008-2010 job market cohorts) to public data on job histories and publication records through 2022. We...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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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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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department
Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … when accounting for NPs' wages that are half as much as physicians'. Despite large productivity differences between … professions, we find even larger productivity differences within professions and substantial productivity overlap between …
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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Performance pay in general amounts to only a small fraction of total pay. In this paper, we show that performance pay is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly provides for human capital acquisition and because of...
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Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers
Cen, Xiao; Dou, Winston Wei; Kogan, Leonid; Wu, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Investment fund managers make asset allocation decisions on behalf of a significant segment of US households. To 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...
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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association
Donald, Stephen - 2004
measures allow direct measurement of productivity. We illustrate this point with evidence on elections to offices of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468006
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AI, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers
Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study … improves drivers' productivity by shortening the cruising time, and such gain is accrued only to low-skilled drivers, narrowing … the productivity gap between high- and low-skilled drivers by 14%. The result indicates that AI's impact on human labor is …
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