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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
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Identifying the value of teamwork : application to professional tennis
Devereux, Kevin - 2018
their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond … that given by general skills. The identifying assumption is that workers use general skills in both production functions …, but team skills only in team production. Professional men's tennis provides a useful setting to compare solo work (singles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036713
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Technology adoption, turbulence and the dynamics of unemployment
Duernecker, Georg - 2011
The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...
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Human capital, productivity, and structural transformation
Woldemichael, Andinet; Shimeles, Abebe - 2019
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Returns to teamwork and professional networks : evidence from economic research
Devereux, Kevin - 2021
Teamwork is growing in developed economies, and workers in teams are increasingly compensated according to team output. Because parsing individual contributions to teamwork is difficult, I focus on scholarly economics research, which lists contributing authors. I use turnover to identify team...
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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession
Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022
Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...
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What fosters firm-level labour productivity in Eastern European and Central Asian countries?
Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena - 2019 - This version 30/05/2019
This study examines labour productivity performance and its determinants in Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) firms using micro-level data. We find significant differences in labour productivity among members of the European Union in Eastern Europe and other Eastern European and Central...
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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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The labor market returns to unobserved skills : evidence from a gender quota
Moeeni, Safoura; Wei, Feng - 2022
We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of … unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still … disparities in labor market outcomes. since employers cannot observe all applicantsâ skills and productivity, they rely on the …
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