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作者：Pavan, Ronni
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：In this article, I present structural estimates of a search model that flexibly incorporates general human capital accumulation along with career and firm choice, where a career is empirically identified as a combination of industry and occupation. I use these estimates to empirically distinguish between the relative importance of various factors for generating wage growth over the life cycle. Evidence presented in the article highlights the importance of considering the two-stage search proce...
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作者：Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We estimate the causal effect of attending a state Faith school on primary education achievement in England using administrative student-level data and implementing various strategies to control for students' selection into Faith schooling. Our regressions control for fixed effects in prior achievement and residential postcode to compare pupils who are close residential neighbors and have identical observable ability. We also use information on future school choices to control for preferences ...
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作者：Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Lyon 2
摘要：In labor markets, the ratchet effect refers to a situation where workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or by cutting pay. We model this effect as a multiperiod principal-agent problem with hidden information and study its robustness to labor market competition both theoretically and experimentally. Consistent with our theoretical model, we observe subs...
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作者：Hunt, Jennifer
作者单位：McGill University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages, patenting, and publishing. Much of the advantage is explained by immigrants' higher education and field of study. Immigrants who entered with legal permanent resid...
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作者：Bernal, Raquel; Keane, Michael P.
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We evaluate the effect of child care versus maternal time inputs on child cognitive development using single mothers from the NLSY79. To deal with nonrandom selection of children into child care, we exploit the exogenous variation in welfare policy rules facing single mothers. In particular, the 1996 welfare reform and earlier state-level policy changes generated substantial increases in their work/child care use. We construct a comprehensive set of welfare policy variables and use them as ins...
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作者：Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; van der Klaauw, Bas
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：Existing field evidence on rank-order tournaments typically does not allow disentangling incentive and sorting effects. We conduct a field experiment illustrating the confounding effect. Students in an introductory microeconomics course selected themselves into tournaments with low, medium, or high prizes for the best score at the final exam. Nonexperimental analysis of the results would suggest that higher rewards induce higher productivity, but a comparison between treatment and control grou...
