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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436158
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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Tingting, Zhang - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450453
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043663
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jerome - 2011
This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117186
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042975
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Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency : evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441715
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If you are so smart, why arent́ you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
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 ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796310
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Career networks and job matching : evidence on the microeconomic foundations of human capital externalities
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2009
Inspired by the literature on the importance of local career networks for the quality of labor market matches we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849357
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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872720
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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544