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作者：Kunze, Astrid; Miller, Amalia R.
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Virginia; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study gender spillovers in career advancement using eleven years of employer-employee matched data on white-collar workers at over 4,000 private sector workplaces in Norway. Our data allow us to define seven hierarchical ranks that are consistent across plants and over time and track promotions even for individuals who change employers. We find positive spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within ranks. The finding of narrower ...
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作者：Abeberese, Ama Baafra
作者单位：Wellesley College
摘要：Using data on Indian firms, I provide evidence on how electricity prices affect a firm's industry choice and productivity growth. I construct an instrument for electricity price as the interaction between coal price and the share of thermal generation in a state's total electricity generation capacity. I find that in response to an exogenous increase in electricity price, firms switch to less electricity-intensive production processes within narrowly defined industries, reduce their machine in...
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作者：Foellmi, Reto; Martinez, Isabel Z.
作者单位：University of St Gallen
摘要：In the past twenty years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top 1% but closer to the United States for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control method, we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons changed their tax system at different points in time. Using social security data, which cover all top labor incomes, we document the growing importance o...
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作者：Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, Nicolai
作者单位：University of Essex; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Leibniz University Hannover; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We measure selection among high-skilled emigrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to nonmigrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive selection to less equal countries reflects university quality and grades, and negative selection to more equal countries reflects university subject and gender. Migrants to the United States are highly pos...
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作者：Lehrer, Steven; Xie, Tian
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; New York University; NYU Shanghai; National Bureau of Economic Research; Xiamen University; Xiamen University
摘要：Business decision makers are increasingly using predictive social media analytic tools in forecasting exercises but ignoring potential model uncertainty. Using data on the universe of Twitter messages, we calculate the sentiment regarding each film to understand whether these opinions affect box office opening and DVD retail sales. Our results contrasting eleven different econometric strategies including penalization methods indicate that accounting for model uncertainty can lead to large gain...
