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Katharine G. Abraham
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 131
Citations - 7760
Katharine G. Abraham is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unemployment & Wage. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 127 publications receiving 7468 citations. Previous affiliations of Katharine G. Abraham include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & United States Department of Labor.
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Experience, Performance, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between experience and performance among managerial and professional employees doing similar work in two major U. S. corporations was investigated. And the results indicated that the human capital on-the-job training model cannot explain a substantial part of the observed return to labor market experience.
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Job duration, seniority, and earnings
TL;DR: This article found that workers in longer jobs earn significantly more in every year of the job than do workers in shorter jobs and that workers with more experience have had more time to find good jobs and/or good matches, resulting in higher earnings.
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Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the factors that influence a firm's decision to contract out for business support services may be influenced by the wage and benefit savings it could realize, the volatility of its output demand, and the availability of specialized skills possessed by the outside contractor.
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Cyclical Unemployment: Sectoral Shifts or Aggregate Disturbances?
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that aggregate demand movements alone can produce a positive correlation between employment growth rates across sectors and the unemployment rate and that shifts in demand from some sectors to others are responsible for a substantial fraction of cyclical variation in unemployment.
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Are those paid more really more productive? the case of experience*
TL;DR: This paper used computerized personnel microdata on the white male managerial and professional employees at a major U.S. corporation to address the following question: Can the additional earnings which are associated with more labor market experience really be explained by higher productivity at the same point in time?