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作者：Wong, LY
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：This article examines whether the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model with productivity changes can explain the time pattern of wage inequality. The main finding is that the model produces counterfactual results. The main source of failure seems to be the exogenous matching function and/or the exogenous surplus share, neither of which allows firms to use wage policies to direct workers' searches.
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作者：Foote, CL; Whatley, WC; Wright, G
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Stanford University
摘要：The 1918-47 employee records of the Ford Motor Company provide a rare opportunity to study a firm willing to hire black workers when similar firms would not. The evidence suggests that Ford did profit from discrimination elsewhere, but not by paying blacks less than whites. An apparent wage-equity constraint prevailed, resulting in virtually no racial variation in wages inside Ford. An implication was that blacks quit Ford jobs less often than whites, holding working conditions constant. Arbit...
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作者：Brown, C; Medoff, JL
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
摘要：We analyze the relationship between how long an employer has been in business (firm age) and wages. Using data from special supplements to the Survey Research Center's monthly Survey of Consumers, we find that firms that have been in business longer pay higher wages (as previous studies found), but when we control for worker characteristics, the relationship becomes insignificant or negative. There is some evidence that the relationship is not monotonic, with wages falling and then rising with...
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作者：Wong, LY
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：A structural approach is used to examine who matches with whom. A two-sided matching model that allows for marital sorting in response to marriage market flexibility and agents' preferences is utilized. Estimation is based on imbedding the numerical solution of a matching model within a maximum likelihood procedure. Results indicate that wage is more desirable than education in predicting marriageability for white men; education is more desirable for black men. The marriage market for white me...
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作者：Gottschalk, P; Hansen, M
作者单位：Boston College
摘要：This article explores the claim that college-educated workers are increasingly likely to be in noncollege occupations. We provide a conceptual framework that gives analytical content to the previously vague distinction between college and noncollege jobs. We show that, when there is heterogeneity in preferences, equally productive college workers can be in college and noncollege jobs. This framework is also used to show that skill-biased technological change will lead to a decline in the propo...
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作者：Tyler, JH
作者单位：Brown University
摘要：This article uses variation in the labor supply of twelfth-grade students created by interstate variations in child labor laws to estimate the effect of school-year work on twelfth-grade math achievement. The instrumental variable estimates in this article indicate that an exogenous decrease in school-year hours worked of 10 hours per week would result in a 0.2 standard deviation increase in math scores. Comparisons to ordinary least squares estimates suggest that failure to account for the en...
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作者：Dee, TS; Evans, WN
作者单位：Swarthmore College; National Bureau of Economic Research; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This study examines the effects of teen alcohol use and availability on educational attainment. We demonstrate that teens who faced a lower minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) were substantially more likely to drink. However, we find that changes in MLDA had small and statistically insignificant effects on educational attainment. Using matched cohorts from two data sets, we also report two-sample instrumental variables estimates of the effect of teen drinking on educational attainment. These est...
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作者：Page, ME; Solon, G
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：A comparison of the correlations between brothers and neighboring boys in their adult earnings suggests that the earnings resemblance between brothers stems more from growing up in the same family than from growing up in the same neighborhood. Much of the neighbor correlation is explicable in terms of the large earnings differential between urban and nonurban areas combined with the strength with which urbanicity of childhood neighborhood predicts urbanicity of adult location. This pattern is ...
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作者：Zveglich, JE; Rodgers, YV
作者单位：William & Mary
摘要：Policies designed to protect female workers have controversial effects on labor market outcomes, both in theory and in practice. The analysis uses repeated cross-sections of household survey data for Taiwan to estimate the impact of working-hours restrictions and maternity benefits. Differential coverage across industrial sectors and demographic groups provides a unique opportunity to identify the impact of both policies in a single natural experiment framework. While working-hours restriction...
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作者：Bai, CE; Wang, YJ
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Uncertainty in labor productivity (ULP) is affected by many factors, such as worker-employer matching, technology, and macroeconomic conditions. Not surprisingly, ULP varies across firms, industries, and economies. How do variations in ULP affect specific human capital (SHC) investment, wage, and labor turnover? A fixed-wage model is used to show that the answer depends critically on the initial level of ULP. The model is also used to show that wage and SHC are always positively correlated, bu...
