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Women and STEM
Kahn, Shulamit - 2017
-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …
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'Acting Wife' : Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition … they believed their classmates would not see their responses, single and non-single women answered similarly. However …, single women reported desired yearly compensation $18,000 lower and being willing to travel seven fewer days per month and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455637
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Globalizing Activities and the Rate of Survival : Panel Data Analysis on Japanese Firms
Kimura, Fukunari - 2003
This paper conducts a Cox-type survival analysis of Japanese corporate firms using census-coverage data collected by METI. A study of exiting firms confirmed several characteristics of Japanese firms in the 1990s. First, excessive internalization in the corporate structure and activities is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468627
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International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share
David, Joel M.; Rancière, Romain; Zeke, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How does growing international financial diversification affect firm-level and aggregate labor shares? We study this question using a novel framework of firm labor choice in the face of aggregate risk. The theory implies a cross-section of labor risk premia and labor shares that appear as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250185
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Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity : Theory and Evidence from the United States
Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Multinational firms (MNEs) dominate trade flows, yet their global production decisions are often ignored in firm-level studies of exporting and importing. Using newly merged data on US firms' trade and multinational activity by country, we show that MNEs are more likely to trade not only with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322875
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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model
Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437056
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The Simple Economics of Open Source
Lerner, Josh - 2000
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471170
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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 characterized by different wage growth prospects, individual discount rates play an important role in the relative valuation of jobs or occupations. We predict that individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471233
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478365
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Interrupted Work Careers
Mincer, Jacob - 1980
retrospective. Using longitudinal panel data (on married women in NLS) we have now established that real wages at reentry are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478658