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Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on financial aid recipients and exploiting sharp discontinuities in the amount of aid received, this paper identifies the causal effect of aid generosity on college performance and...
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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Large organizations often require employees to collaborate with others who may see the world differently. Yet, little is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues affects performance. Using survey and administrative data from a world-leading bank, we find...
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome … without formal employment lowers students test scores by 0.09 standard deviations. Using a simple production model, we …
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, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent … the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … decade to dissipate fully, wage effects persist, and firm restructuring involves occupational adjustment, increasing …
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decade and estimates their impact on European employment. Using a novel approach that leverages sentence transformers, we … exposure to emerging digital technologies to estimate their employment impact across European regions. We find an overall … positive effect of emerging digital technologies on employment, with a one-standard-deviation increase in regional exposure …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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