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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent
Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022
The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...
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Awards are career catalysts for young talents in highly competitive job markets
Bünning, Florian; Chan, Ben; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: January 01, 2021
Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? : unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
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Are the more educated receiving more training? : evidence from Thailand
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
realize that our employability crisis (as well as to some degree, inequality in the economic and human development sphere) has … development during formative years. Another neglected area that we have discussed is soft skill development and the role of … development) to reap its demographic dividend in a manner that is commensurate with the demands of a knowledge economy. …
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Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis
Montebello, Roberta; Darmanin, Jude - 2021
This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years since 2000, in the context of significant structural...
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Inequality of fear and self-quarantine : is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?
Aum, Sangmin; Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2020
We construct a quantitative model of an economy hit by an epidemic. People differ by age and skill, and choose occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection. Occupations differ by wage, infection risk, and the...
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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