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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection …
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This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...
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This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative...
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps … education gaps in employment between high and lower education levels would raise the employment rate in the EU for the year 2022 …
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model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … onset of child penalties in wages. These important cross-cohort differences help account for the stalling of progress in …
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The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is … for devising labor policies that aim at dampening employment fluctuations. The theoretical literature suggests that job … firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …
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