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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412738
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Human capital and economic activity in urban America
Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M. - 2008
We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283514
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Human capital and economic activity in urban America
Abel, Jaison R. (contributor); Gabe, Todd M. (contributor) - 2008
important determinants of economic vitality. -- Human capital ; knowledge ; new economy ; productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781561
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Human capital risk and the firmsize wage premium
Leung, Danny (contributor);  … - 2008
that it is solely due to differences in labor market uncertainty. -- Economic models ; Labour markets ; Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773015
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Productivity and the density of human capital
Abel, Jaison R.; Dey, Ishita; Gabe, Todd M. - 2010
We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan … accounts for the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling of density increases productivity by 2 to 4 … average labor productivity with respect to density increases with human capital. Metropolitan areas with a human capital stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948812
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Racial identity and education
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2006
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267548
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Racial identity and education
Patacchini, Eleonora (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2006
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301663
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2008
questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793105
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2008
questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793403
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765613