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Origins of gender norms: Sibling gender composition and women's choice of occupation and partner

Brenøe, Anne Ardila - 2018

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...

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On the Importance of Fertility Behavior in School Finance Policy Design

Yılmaz, Kuzey - 2014

To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and the rich because it affects the human capital investment through the child quantity-quality tradeoff of children. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium in which parents choose...

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What types of diversity benefit workers? Empirical evidence on the effects of co-worker dissimilarity on the performance of employees

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2011

This paper explores the consequences of grouping workers into diverse divisions on the performance of employees using a dataset containing the detailed personnel records of a large U.S. firm from 1989-1994. In particular, I examine the effects of demographic dissimilarity among co-workers,...

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Correlation of Brothers Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2013

We model the correlations of brothers' earnings isolating the effect of fathers' earnings from additional residual influences shared between brothers. We separate the two effects by analysing sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations jointly within a unified framework. Our...

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Perverse incentives at the banks? Evidence from a natural experiment

Agarwal, Sumit; Wang, Faye H. - 2009

Incentive provision is a central question in modern economic theory. During the run up to the financial crisis, many banks attempted to encourage loan underwriting by giving out incentive packages to loan officers. Using a unique data set on small business loan officer compensation from a major...

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Accounting for the cyclical dynamics of income shares

Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2011

Over the business cycle, labor's share of output is negatively but weakly correlated with output, and it lags output by about four quarters. Profit's share is strongly procyclical. It neither leads nor lags output, and its volatility is about four times that of output. Despite the importance of...

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...

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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2013

In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence … of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal … foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and …

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Wage mobility in Israel: The effect of sectoral concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009

Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...

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Unpaid work and the economy: Linkages and their implications

Hirway, Indira - 2015

realistic labor and employment policies. …

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