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Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 15329 MAY 2022 Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations This paper links detailed 24-hour diary surveys in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last four decades to provide evidence on the increase in work effort in three specific dimensions:
José Ignacio Giménez, Almudena Sevilla
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Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability
Social Science Research NetworkWe provide the first evidence on how workers invest in human capital after losing ability. Using quasi-random work accidents in Danish administrative data, we find that workers enroll in bachelor’s programs after physical injuries, pursuing degrees that ...
Anders Humlum +2 more
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Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the 1981–1988 birth ...
Yi Fan, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
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Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper uses census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of occupations to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into occupations by parental income.
C. Haeck, Jean-William P. Laliberté
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The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children
Social Science Research Network, 2005 We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to paternal, and ...
A. Chevalier +3 more
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Tournament Incentives and Acquisition Performance
The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2020 This paper examines the impact of promotion-based tournament incentives on corporate acquisition performance. Measuring tournament incentives as the compensation ratio between the CEO and other senior executives, we show that acquirers with greater ...
I. Hasan +3 more
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Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error
Social Science Research Network, 2019 A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150 years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and therefore do not account for the limited opportunities available for ...
Zachary Ward
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Aggregate and Intergenerational Implications of School Closures: A Quantitative Assessment
Social Science Research Network, 2020 This paper quantitatively investigates the medium- and long-term macroeconomic and distributional consequences of school closures through intergenerational channels.
Youngsoo Jang, Minchul Yum
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African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 We document the intergenerational mobility of Black and White American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and combining them with modern data to cover the middle and late ...
W. Collins, Marianne H. Wanamaker
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Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility
, 2012 Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience productivity gains one year after the hiring.
Andrey Stoyanov, Nikolay Zubanov
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