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作者：Stephens, M
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This article examines the added worker effect, which is the labor supply response of wives to their husbands' job losses. Unlike past studies, which focused on the husbands' current unemployment status, this article analyzes wives' responses before and after job losses to examine the life-cycle labor supply adjustments. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data reveals small predisplacement effects and large, persistent postdisplacement effects. The timing of the responses differs with type of...
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作者：Bratsberg, B; Ragan, JF; Nasir, ZM
作者单位：Kansas State University; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
摘要：For young male immigrants, naturalization facilitates assimilation into the U. S. labor market. Following naturalization, immigrants gain access to public-sector, white-collar, and union jobs, and wage growth accelerates-consistent with removal of employment barriers. The faster wage growth of immigrants who naturalize might alternatively result from greater human capital investment prior to naturalization, stemming from a long-term commitment to U. S. labor markets, but there is no evidence t...
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作者：Kossoudji, SA; Cobb-Clark, DA
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Australian National University
摘要：The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) granted amnesty to approximately 1.7 million long-term unauthorized workers in an effort to bring them out of the shadows and improve their labor market opportunities. An analysis of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men provides evidence that wage determinants are structurally different after amnesty for them but not for the comparison group as measured during the same time periods. The wage penalty for being unauthorized is es...
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作者：Zucker, LG; Darby, MR; Torero, M
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Breakthroughs with natural excludability are transferred to industry by top academic scientists (stars) working in or with firms. Movement to firms depends on scientists' quality, moving costs, and reservation wage. Scientists' quality, moving costs, trial frequency, interfering academic offers, and productivity of stars already in firms determine reservation wage. In group-duration analysis for biotechnology, stars move to firms faster as their quality, human focus, and outside coauthorships ...
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作者：Paxson, C; Waldfogel, J
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We examine how child maltreatment-including neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and other forms of maltreatment-is affected by parental economic circumstances. Using state-level panel data on cases of maltreatment and numbers of children in foster care, we find that increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working mothers in a state are related to increases in many measures of maltreatment, as are increases in the share of families with two nonworking parents and those wi...
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作者：Earle, JS; Sabirianova, KZ
作者单位：Central European University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We organize an empirical analysis of Russian wage arrears around hypotheses concerning incentives for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment. Nationally representative household panel data matched with employer data show that arrears are positively related to firm age, size, state ownership, and declining performance. Constrained multinomial logit estimates reveal intrafirm variation related to job tenure and small shareholdings in the firm. Wage arrears, unlike wage cuts, ...
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作者：Fairlie, RW
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Northwestern University; University of Chicago
摘要：Theoretical models of self-employment posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for autonomy are central to the individual's decision between self-employment and wage/salary work. I provide indirect evidence on this hypothesis by examining the relationship between drug dealing as a youth and legitimate self-employment in later years using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I find that drug dealers are 11%-21% more likely to choose self-employm...
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作者：Strayer, W
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：This article extends the research on school quality by focusing on the structural effects of high school quality on earnings. I specify a model of college choice and earnings determination that captures two separate effects of school quality on earnings. First, school quality affects a high school student's choice of college. College choice, in turn, affects the individual's postschool earnings. Second, the additional skills accumulated via a higher quality high school directly influence wages...
