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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
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Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations
Espinosa, Miguel; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers' productivity. We use email...
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul - 2013
Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political...
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
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Continuous Training in Germany
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 1996
training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471452
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
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Leaving Boys Behind : Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement
Fortin, Nicole M. - 2013
each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459330
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Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
Beaudry, Paul - 2012
Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
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