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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：Clark, AE
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：This article uses seven waves of panel data to test for social norms in labor market status. The unemployed's well-being is shown to be strongly positively correlated with reference group unemployment (at the regional, partner, or household level). This result, far stronger for men, is robust to controls for unobserved individual heterogeneity. Panel data also show that those whose well-being fell the most on entering unemployment are less likely to remain unemployed. These findings suggest a ...
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作者：Ehrenberg, RG
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Baker, M; Solon, G
作者单位：University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Using an extraordinary database drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose Canada's growth in earnings inequality into its persistent and transitory components. We find that the growth in earnings inequality reflects both an increase in long-run inequality and an increase in earnings instability. The Canadian data strongly reject several restrictions commonly imposed in the U. S. literature, and they also suggest that imposing these evidently false restrictions may lead to distor...
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作者：Chen, KP; Chiang, SH; Leung, SF
作者单位：Academia Sinica - Taiwan; National Taiwan University; University of York - UK; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This article proposes a formal model of migration in which workers are heterogeneous and markets are stochastically correlated. We derive and characterize the optimal migration pattern of a family. We show that migration can take place even when migrants earn less abroad and, surprisingly, when earnings in the foreign country are riskier for every member of the family. Moreover, it may well be an optimal arrangement to have only dependents migrate, thus rationalizing the recent dependent-orien...
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作者：Stinebrickner, R; Stinebrickner, TR
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Unique new data from a college with a mandatory work-study program are used to examine the relationship between working during school and academic performance. Particular attention is paid to the importance of biases that are potentially present because the number of hours that are worked is endogenously chosen by the individual. The results suggest that, even if results appear reasonable, a researcher should be cautious when drawing policy conclusions about the relationship between hours work...
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作者：Baum, CL II
作者单位：Middle Tennessee State University
摘要：More mothers engage in marketplace work today than ever before, with over 33% returning to work by the time their child is 3 months old. This article identifies the effects of maternal marketplace work in the initial months of an infant's life on the child's cognitive development. Results suggest that such work in the first year of a child's life has detrimental effects. Where significant, the results also indicate negative effects of maternal employment in the child's first quarter of life. H...
