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作者：BARTEL, AP; SICHERMAN, N
摘要：According to human capital theory, technological change will influence the retirement decisions of older workers in two ways. First, workers in industries with high rates of technological change will retire later if there is a net positive correlation between technological change and on-the-job training. Second, an unexpected change in the rate of technological change will induce older workers to retire sooner because the required amount of retraining will be an unattractive investment. We mat...
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作者：CAMERON, SV; HECKMAN, JJ
摘要：This article analyzes the causes and consequences of the growing proportion of high-school-certified persons who achieve that status by exam certification rather than through high school graduation. Exam-certified high school equivalents are statistically indistinguishable from high school dropouts. Whatever differences are found among exam-certified eqiuivalents, high school dropouts and high school graduates are accounted for by their years of schooling completed. There is no cheap substitut...
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作者：TREJO, SJ
摘要：This article analyzes the effect of labor unions on overtime compensation and overtime hours. Estimates from May 1985 Current Population Survey data indicate that unionization increases the prevalence of premium pay for overtime and reduces the incidence and extent of overtime hours. Along with the finding of previous research that unionized workers are more susceptible to temporary layoffs, these results are consistent with a model in which unions use overtime pay to stabilize working hours a...
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作者：BLACKBURN, ML; NEUMARK, D
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Over the 1980s, there were sharp increases in the return to schooling estimated with conventional wage regressions. We explore whether the relationship between ability and schooling changed over this period in ways that would have increased the schooling coefficient in these regressions. Our empirical results reject the hypothesis that an increase in the bias of the schooling coefficient, due to a change in the relationship between ability and schooling, has contributed to observed increases i...
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作者：ZABEL, JE
摘要：This article analyzes the relationship between hours of work and labor force participation (LFP) in Heckman's model, Cogan's fixed-cost mode, Moffitt's minimum hours constraint model, and a generalized version of Heckman's model. First, the parameter restrictions between the LFP and reduced-form hours-of-work equations are compared. The models are then estimated, and the results support the weakening of the link between the LFP and hours-of-work decisions. One implication of the analysis is th...
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作者：BLOCK, W; WALKER, MA
作者单位：College of the Holy Cross
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作者：BRUCE, CJ; ATKINS, FJ
摘要：We develop a model in which it is predicted that more resources will be devoted to safety in a workers' compensation system with experience-rated premiums than in one with flat-rated premiums. We test this model by observing the effect on fatality rates of the move from flat rating to experience rating in the forestry and construction industries of Ontario, Canada. The evidence provides strong confirmation of the theory.
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作者：CHISWICK, BR
摘要：The General Social Surveys Cumulative Data File is used to analyze the schooling, occupational status, and earnings of American Jews. Jews are identified by a question on religion at age 16. The analysis focuses on trends within the survey period and intergenerational changes from the father to the respondent. Ceteris paribus, Jews have significantly higher levels of schooling, occupational status, and earnings than other whites, and within the survey period there is no trend in the differenti...
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作者：REIMERS, C; HONIG, M
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：If, as is usually assumed, older individuals face a continuous choice of work hours without fixed costs or take account of the actuarial adjustment of Social Security benefits postponed as a result of the earnings test, the earnings limit should not affect their labor supply before age 65. We test, and reject, these assumptions by estimating the hazard function for labor market reentry after retirement, using white men in the Retirement History Survey. We find that the earnings limit does affe...
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作者：WOOD, RG; CORCORAN, ME; COURANT, PN
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This article uses very detailed information on graduates of the University of Michigan Law School to examine male-female pay differences in that population. Men and women in this population have virtually identical human capital on graduation from law school, allowing us to examine carefully the different impact of children and work history on men's and women's careers and earnings. Taking time from work in order to care for children reduces wages significantly, but a rich set of controls, inc...
