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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...

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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...

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A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model

Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value of time is uniform across time uses by using market wages. This approach implies a fundamental...

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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of … fields of economics – should not be described as such. Adopting this definition can improve incentives for researchers …

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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors may yield misleading inference. We generalize the model and provide an appropriate test procedure...

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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...

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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

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Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market

Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa; Góra, Marek - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour market and from personal motivation to prefer benefits to wages. We focus on this latter effect and...

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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders

Anukriti, S; Chakravarty, Abhishek - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Despite theoretical advances, measurement issues have impeded empirical research on aspirations. We quantify political aspirations in a developing country by estimating individuals' willingness to trade-off family size for political candidacy. Utilizing quasi-experimental variation in legal...

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