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作者：Engelhardt, Bryan
作者单位：College of the Holy Cross
摘要：This article provides estimates on how long it takes for released inmates to find a job and, when they find a job, how less likely they are to be incarcerated. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method, and analyze policies including a job placement program. The results show that the unemployed are incarcerated twice as fast as the employed and take on average 6 months to find a job. The article demonstrates that reducing the average...
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作者：Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U. S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting. We are able to rule out displ...
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作者：Yamaguchi, Shintaro
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：This article constructs and estimates a model of wage bargaining with on-the-job search to explore three different components of wages: general human capital, match-specific capital, and outside options. As the workers find better job opportunities, the current employer has to compete with outside firms to retain them. This between-firm competition results in wage growth even when productivity remains the same. The model is estimated by a simulated minimum distance estimator and data from the ...
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作者：Buchinsky, Moshe; Leslie, Phillip
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
摘要：We present a dynamic model of individuals' educational investments that allows us to explore alternative modeling strategies for forecasting future wage distributions. The key innovation we propose is an approach to forecasting that relies only on the information that would be available at the actual time decisions are made and which incorporates the role of parameter uncertainty into the decision-making process. We compare the performance of our method with alternative models of forecasting b...
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作者：Hartzell, Jay C.; Parsons, Christopher A.; Yermack, David L.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; New York University
摘要：We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43-year panel data set. The church appears to use pay-for-performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately 3% of the incremental revenue from membership increases. Ministers receive the strongest rewards for attracting new parishioners who switch from other congregations within their denomination. Monetary incentives are weaker in sett...
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作者：Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjorn; Roed, Knut
摘要：Life cycle employment of minority labor migrants who entered Norway in the early 1970s diverges from that of natives. Immigrant employment was nearly complete during early years but declined to 50% by the year 2000 (compared to 87% for a native comparison group). We find that immigrant employment is particularly sensitive to the business cycle and that economic downturns of the 1980s and 1990s accelerated their labor market exit. We trace part of the decline to migrants being overrepresented i...
