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作者：Black, Dan; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Taylor, Lowell
作者单位：University of Chicago; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - St. Louis; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Economists generally assume, implicitly, that the return to schooling is invariant across local labor markets. We demonstrate that this outcome pertains if and only if preferences are homothetic-a special case that seems unlikely. Our theory predicts that returns to education will instead be relatively low in expensive high-amenity locations. Our analysis of U. S. data provides support for this contention; returns to college are especially low in such cities as San Francisco and Seattle. Our f...
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作者：Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Cambridge
摘要：This article exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a commonly used performance-related pay scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division but not in another. Branches from the second division are used as a control group. Our results suggest that the Balanced Scorecard had some impact but that it varied with branch characteristics, and, in particular,...
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作者：Arai, Mahmood; Thoursie, Peter Skogman
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：We study the effects of surname change to Swedish-sounding or neutral names on earnings for immigrants from Asian/African/Slavic countries. To estimate this effect, we exploit the variation resulting from different timing of name changes across individuals during the 1990s. The results imply that there is a substantial increase in annual earnings after a name change, no effects on earnings prior to a name change, and no positive general effects of a new name for other groups that renounced a f...
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作者：Weiss, Yoram
作者单位：Tel Aviv University
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作者：Fox, Jeremy T.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：I present the fact that wage gaps due to firm size increase with job responsibility. I use Swedish data to determine whether wage gaps increase with a direct measure of job responsibility, to compare the age patterns of the wage gaps for blue- and white-collar workers, and to compare wages by job responsibility and spans of control. With U. S. data, I compare supervisory to nonsupervisory occupations and find that wage gaps increase with job responsibility for most occupational ladders. This f...
