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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences … furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education thanemployees (in terms of the comparable performance measure …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
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growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
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study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; Wage Differentials ; Career Path …
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study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …
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While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...
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How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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that 71% of this effect emerges during the career. We show that this effect holds irrespective of individual abilities, and …
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