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Is increasing productivity COVID-19's silver lining?

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present evidence suggesting that the same is true in Canada. In...

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Automation and reallocation : the lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...

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Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and their role in the knowledge-based economy

Zieba, Malgorzata - 2013

The development of knowledge-intensive business services in recent decades can be interpreted as one of the indicators … of a transformation from an industrial economy into a knowledge-based one. Not only do quantitative measures, whether in … knowledge throughout the economy. This article presents an analysis of the KIBS sector based on a literature review. In the …

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The socioeconomic gradient of cognitive test scores : evidence from two cohorts of Irish children

Madden, David - 2020

There is a well-established socioeconomic gradient in cognitive test scores for children. This gradient emerges at very early ages and there is also some evidence that it can widen as children age. We investigate this phenomenon with two longitudinal cohorts of Irish children who take such tests...

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Gender differences in college applications : evidence from the centralized system in Turkey

Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2012

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at elite schools is particularly puzzling because college...

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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?

Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014

The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...

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Designing efficient college and tax policies

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...

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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility

Yum, Minchul - 2016

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...

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Bridging the gaps : inequalities in childrens' educational outcomes in Ireland

Madden, David - 2014

Recent developments in the inequality literature has stressed the importance of inequality of opportunity as opposed to inequality of outcome. In this paper we investigate the presence of ex post inequality of opportunity in two measures of educational achievement for a representative sample of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433961

Born to win? : the role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities

Madden, David - 2013

This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...

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