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Handedness and Earnings
Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2006
We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite transitory, whereas … negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these rich sets of …
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Understanding Earnings Dynamics : Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks
Lochner, Lance - 2014
identification and estimation using a moment-based approach, restricting unobserved skill pricing functions to be polynomials. Using …
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2000
if we try alternative estimation techniques and specifications …
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2009
who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016
-employed individuals are more likely to find unemployment-insured "formal" jobs at larger firms that pay greater wages. These estimates …
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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco
Crépon, Bruno - 2014
and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …
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Smart and Illicit : Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?
Levine, Ross - 2013
white, male, and come from higher-income families, the incorporated--as teenagers--typically scored higher on learning …
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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia
Blattman, Christopher - 2019
-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first …
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The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing
Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; McPherson, Carl; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio …
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