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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：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：Autor, DH
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Over the past 3 decades, the U. S. Temporary Help Services (THS) industry grew five times more rapidly than overall employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 46 states adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limited employers' discretion to terminate workers and opened them to litigation. This article assesses the contribution of unjust dismissal doctrine to THS employment specifically, and outsourcing more generally, finding that it is substantial-explaining 20...
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作者：Blau, FD; Kahn, LM
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap, with an especially large effect for wage structures. Reduced-form specifications indicate that the extent of collective bargaining coverage is also significantly negatively related to the gender pay gap. Together, the wage compression and collective bargaining results suggest that the high wage floors that are a...
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作者：Albrecht, J; Björklund, A; Vroman, S
作者单位：Georgetown University; Stockholm University
摘要：Using 1998 data, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail. We interpret this as a strong glass ceiling effect. We use quantile regression decompositions to examine whether this pattern can be ascribed primarily to gender differences in labor market characteristics or in the rewards to those characteristics. Even after extensive controls for gender differences in age, education (both level and field), sector, ind...
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作者：Brueckner, JK; Zenou, Y
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Southampton
摘要：The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of housing discrimination on the wages and unemployment rates of black workers. The unemployment effect is first analyzed using a simple minimum-wage model. An efficiency-wage model is then adopted in order to endogenize both unemployment and wages. Under both models, suburban housing discrimination leads to a higher unemployment rate for blacks in the central city than in the suburbs. Under the efficiency-wage model, black wages are also lower...
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作者：Johnson, JH
摘要：In this article, I provide both econometric and case study evidence on the labor market effects of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1985 Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority decision that made 80% of state and local government workers eligible to receive compensation for overtime hours worked. Empirical evidence suggests that the behavior of public sector workers is consistent with a Coasian model in which overtime provisions are explicitly bargained for by the parties involved, likel...
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作者：Holzer, HJ; Stoll, MA
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This article examines employer demand for welfare recipients using new employer survey data. The results suggest that demand is high but sensitive to business cycle conditions. Factors including skill needs and industry affect prospective employer demand for recipients, while other characteristics that affect their relative supply to employers (e. g., establishment location) influence whether such demand is realized in actual hiring. The conditional demand for black and Hispanic welfare recipi...
