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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

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Is increasing productivity COVID-19's silver lining?

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present evidence suggesting that the same is true in Canada. In...

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Automation and reallocation : the lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...

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Multinational network, innovation and the growth of employment

Davies, Ronald B.; Santoni, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid; … - 2025

increasing understanding that innovation is concentrated among a small number of generally large firms. We contribute to this … debate by showing that the innovation-employment link for a firm is dependent on its multinational status. While we find that … innovation for multinationals. While we do find evidence suggesting that such firms benefit from innovation done by other …

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Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and their role in the knowledge-based economy

Zieba, Malgorzata - 2013

The development of knowledge-intensive business services in recent decades can be interpreted as one of the indicators … of a transformation from an industrial economy into a knowledge-based one. Not only do quantitative measures, whether in … knowledge throughout the economy. This article presents an analysis of the KIBS sector based on a literature review. In the …

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Race and the income-achievement gap

Bacic, Ryan; Zheng, Angela - 2023

We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data linked to tax records, we study the income-achievement gap across different races and find important variation. The income-achievement gap is small for East Asian children...

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Keep me in, coach : the shortand long-term effects of targeted academic coaching

Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; … - 2023

To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at...

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Born to win? : the role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities

Madden, David - 2013

This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...

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Bridging the gaps : inequalities in childrens' educational outcomes in Ireland

Madden, David - 2014

Recent developments in the inequality literature has stressed the importance of inequality of opportunity as opposed to inequality of outcome. In this paper we investigate the presence of ex post inequality of opportunity in two measures of educational achievement for a representative sample of...

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Gender differences in college applications : evidence from the centralized system in Turkey

Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2012

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at elite schools is particularly puzzling because college...

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