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The impact of labor market entry condition on initial job assignment, human capital accumulation, and wages

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2010

We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian … labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as …

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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … the local economy depends on these skills. We emphasize that to evaluate correctly such impact, we also need to understand …

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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2024

Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions -...

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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2024

Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions-generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties-dominate trade frictions- generated by...

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Beauty and productivity in academic publishing

Bortnikova, Kseniya - 2023

limited since intellectual skills must play a key role. In this work, I document the beauty effect for economic scholars …

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Organizational Justice and Antidiscrimination

Areheart, Bradley A. - 2020

Despite eighty years of governmental interventions, the legal system has proven ill-equipped to address workplace discrimination. Potential plaintiffs are reluctant to file discrimination claims for a host of social and economic reasons, and the relatively few who do file face steep structural...

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Human Capital and Its Structure

Burns, Scott - 2017

-employment” and why the so-called “skills mismatch” has apparently increased over time …

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Do Employers Pay for Consistent Performance? : Evidence from the NBA

Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Brastow, Raymond T. - 1998

In a world of uncertainty in which a worker's performance is variable over time and average performance is unknown when hiring, how will employers determine compensation? We develop a monitoring and signaling model where information is symmetric and parties are risk neutral. Monitoring costs...

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Micro foundations of earnings differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017

knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

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A comment on "Taste-based gender favouritism in high-strike decisions: evidence from the price is right"

Engel, Julia F.; Nüß, Patrick; Rudolph, Meike; … - 2024

We conduct a computational replication of Atanasov et al. (2023). In total, our analysis covers three variations: we use the cleaned dataset provided in the replication package, we clean the original data ourselves, and finally we extend the dataset to encompass an additional three years of data...

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