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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
Munasinghe, Lalith - 2000
Time preference is a key determinant of occupational choice and investments in human capital. Since careers are …
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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market
Freeman, Richard B. - 1981
This study uses Current Population Survey cohort data and the National Longitudinal Survey for men aged 14-24 in 1966 to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market for graduates. The principal finding is that the...
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Interrupted Work Careers
Mincer, Jacob - 1980
The quantitative effects and even the existence of "human capital depreciation" phenomena has been a subject of controversy in the recent literature. Prior work, however, was largely cross-sectional and theiotgitudina1 dimension, if any, was retrospective. Using longitudinal panel data (on...
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Elite Schools and Opting In : Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes
Ge, Suqin - 2018
Using College and Beyond data and a variant on Dale and Krueger's (2002) matched-applicant approach, this paper revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions: we examine new outcomes related to labor force...
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Behavioral Corporate Finance : The Life Cycle of a CEO Career
Guenzel, Marius - 2020
One of the fastest-growing areas of finance research is the study of managerial biases and their implications for firm outcomes. Since the mid-2000s, this strand of behavioral corporate finance has provided theoretical and empirical evidence on the influence of biases in the corporate realm,...
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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy A. - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
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Political Careers or Career Politicians?
Mattozzi, Andrea - 2007
.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave … careers of politicians in an environment with a private sector and a political sector, where individuals are heterogeneous … politicians and individuals with political careers, and their motivations. We also investigate the effects of monetary incentives …
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The Making of an Investment Banker : Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
Oyer, Paul - 2006
New graduates of elite MBA programs flock to Wall Street during bull markets and start their careers elsewhere when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466610
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Time on the Ladder : Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938
Alston, Lee J. - 2005
We explore the dynamics of the agricultural ladder (the progression from laborer to cropper to renter) in the U.S. before 1940 using individual-level data from a survey of farmers conducted in 1938 in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Using information on each individual's complete career history...
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Literary Life Cycles : The Careers of Modern American Poets
Galenson, David W. - 2003
This paper examines the careers of eleven leading American poets of the past century. Using the frequency with which … there were two distinctly different life cycles: one group produced their most important work early in their careers, in …
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