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Employer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities : Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion

Démurger, Sylvie - 2019

This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly with labor market experience. This pattern is entirely...

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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility : Direct Evidence From Teachers

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010

-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match … quality is negatively correlated with turnover, unrelated with exit, and increases with experience. This paper provides the … first estimates of worker-firm match quality using output data as opposed to inferring productivity from wages or employment …

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The Complementarity between Cities and Skills

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009

There is a strong connection between per worker productivity and metropolitan area population, which is commonly interpreted as evidence for the existence of agglomeration economies. This correlation is particularly strong in cities with higher levels of skill and virtually non-existent in less...

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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008

teacher and student outcomes and measures of mentoring quality, such as hours of mentoring received and the characteristics of … address potential sources of bias. I find strong relationships between measures of mentoring quality and teachers' claims …

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Tenure and Output

Shaw, Kathryn - 2007

A key tenet of the theory of human capital is that investment in skills results in higher productivity. The previous literature has estimated the degree of investment in human capital for individuals by looking at individual wage growth as a proxy for productivity growth. In this paper, we have...

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Ability and Employer Learning : Evidence from the Economist Labor Market

Oyer, Paul - 2007

I study the human capital development and firm-worker matching processes for PhD economists. This group is useful for this purpose because the types of jobs they hold can be easily categorized and they have an observable productivity measure (that is, publications.) I derive a two-period model...

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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills

Bartel, Ann P. - 2005

This study presents new empirical evidence on the relationship between investments in new computer-based information technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity growth. We have assembled a data set on plants with a...

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Multinational Production, Skilled Labor and Real Wages

Markusen, James R. - 1996

Adapting our earlier model of multinationals, we address policy issues involving wages and labor skills. Multinational firms may arise endogenously, exporting their firm-specific knowledge capital to foreign production facilities, and geographically fragmenting production into skilled and...

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Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1996

which employers learn about worker quality and use these, along with some strong auxiliary assumptions, to explore the …

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Overconfidence and Occupational Choice

Lazear, Edward P. - 2016

A statistical theory of overconfidence is proposed and applied to the issue of occupational choice. Individuals who can choose whether to engage in an activity or not must estimate their performance. The estimates have error and that error has positive expectation among those who engage in the...

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