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Team Performance, Efficiency and Wage Distribution in Professional Baseball
Vasilescu, Octavian - 2008
The effect of wage inequality on team production is an important question in labor economics. Data from sports are well suited to study this problem, with more than 10 published papers in the last decade. We analyze the effect of wage inequality both on team performance and efficiency, using...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Fairness and frictions : the impact of unequal raises on quit behavior
Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2015
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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The returns to schooling unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
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Birds of a feather earn together : gender and peer effects at the workplace
Messina, Julián; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...
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Labor Specialization and the Impact of International Trade on the Skill Premium
Madanizadeh, Seyed Ali - 2017
specialization. In this model, I show how trade liberalization will result in reallocation of high skilled workers within an industry … degree of labor specialization within high-skilled or low-skilled workers, to reduce their marginal costs, and to evolve into …
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Selection and Specialization in the Evolution of Marriage Earnings Gaps
Juhn, Chinhui - 2015
that the marriage earnings gap fell for women in fixed-effect estimates implying that the impact of specialization has …
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that … occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. This enhanced degree of task specialization …
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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …
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