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Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure? Evidence from a Sample of Twins

Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011

marital status and computer usage on wages. Within-twin estimates indicate that, unlike education, job tenure and union status …, neither marital status nor computer usage have a large or significant effect on wages …Both marital status and computer usage on the job have been found to increase earnings by as much as two additional …

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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation

Benz, Sebastian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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Closing the gap : gender and innovation

Barasa, Laura - 2020

Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises and male-owned enterprises. A non-linear...

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The shelf life of incumbent workers during accelerating technological change : evidence from a training regulation reform

Janssen, Simon; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2018

In periods of accelerating technological change, incumbent workers must continuously update their skills to remain productive. In contrast, high school or college graduates recently entering the labor market often have the most up-to-date skills. We investigate how incumbent workers' careers...

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The role of innovation in employment growth, skill demand, and wages : evidence from Ecuador

Rochina Barrachina, María E.; Rodríguez-Moreno, Jorge … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-30

examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of …. Finally, innovative firms pay higher wages. Therefore, we provide evidence for a developing country on the relevant role of … innovation in employment growth, skills demand, and the payment of higher wages. …

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An Alternative Explanation of Differences in Relative Wages Among Developed Economies by Endogenizing Invention, Innovation and Diffusion

Bowman, Kevin James - 2012

I develop a model for a small, open, technology-lagging economy that imports leading-edge knowledge from the technology leader by paying high-skilled researchers from the leading country their opportunity cost to train the lagging country's future high-skilled workers while adding to a local...

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Pay Discrimination and Innovation Productivity : Evidence from the Passage of State-Level Pay Secrecy Laws

Gao, Huasheng - 2020

We examine the effect of pay discrimination on corporate innovation and inventor productivity using difference-in-differences regressions based on the staggered passage of state-level pay secrecy laws that mitigate pay discrimination. We find significant increases in the quantity and quality of...

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