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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...

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Parenting promotes social mobility within and across generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...

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FDI and wages : evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. -- foreign acquisitions ; FDI … ; earnings ; wage differentials ; productivity ; difference-in-differences matching ; employer effects ; Hungary …

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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

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Understanding Wages: Structure, Uncertainty, Inequality

Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Estimating marginal returns to education

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2010

This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...

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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2005

analysis is the concept that childhood has more than one stage. We formalize the concepts of self-productivity and … traditional debate about nature versus nurture is scientifically obsolete. Human capital investment exhibits both self-productivity … cycle (self-productivity). Early investment facilitates the productivity of later investment (complementarity). Early …

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