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Exports and productivity growth: first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

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Within-groups wage inequality and schooling: further evidence for Portugal

Andini, Corrado - 2007

This paper provides further evidence on the positive impact of schooling on within-groups wage dispersion in Portugal, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity is taken into account by using the newest available...

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A dynamic Mincer equation with an application to Portuguese data

Andini, Corrado - 2007

This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education: simulation based evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2007

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs: theory and empirical evidence

Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - 2007

We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions between households where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and...

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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism: an analysis of Maryland and Missouri

Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2007

State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reforms from the perspective of the...

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The rate of learning-by-doing: estimates from a search-matching model

Prat, Julien - 2007

idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed framework enables us to endogenize job destruction and …

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Too old to work, too young to retire?

Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to...

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Interactions between workers and the technology of production: evidence from professional baseball

Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2007

existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization …

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