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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...
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作者：ALTONJI, JG
摘要：This article treats education as a sequential choice that is made under uncertainty. A simple model is used to explore the effects of ability, high school preparation, preferences for schooling, the borrowing rate, and ex post payoffs to college on the probability of various post-secondary college outcomes and the ex ante return to starting college. The model motivates an empirical method of accounting for uncertainty about educational outcomes and for nonlinearity in the relationship between ...
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作者：VELLA, F
摘要：This article argues that the negative relationship between weekly hours worked and the gross hourly wage rate is due to the provision of fringe benefits. As the total weekly wage increases, employers and employees avoid taxation by substituting wages with nontaxable, nonwage benefits. I produce a wage that incorporates the benefit effects and estimate the corresponding labor-supply elasticities. An estimator is presented for the wage/hours market locus and the structural labor-supply function....
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作者：ALLEN, DW
摘要：Canada has a universal social assistance program that is almost completely administered through the federal Canada Assistance Program. However, provinces determine the levels of assistance for various groups eligible for welfare. This article exploits the variation in payments and uses microdata to estimate the effect of changes in welfare benefits on welfare participation, single parenthood, births out of wedlock, divorce, and labor force participation among low-income women. In Canada, it wo...
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作者：MAIN, BGM; OREILLY, CA; WADE, J
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Tournament mechanisms suggest the need for ever larger rewards to motivate those at the highest organizational levels. But arguments for the efficiency of executive pay compression have also been made. This study reports the results of an empirical investigation of executive compensation using over two-hundred firms and in excess of two thousand executives per year over a 5-year period. Results are consistent with the operation of tournaments but fail to find support for the empirical importan...
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作者：ROSENZWEIG, MR; WOLPIN, KI
作者单位：New York University
摘要：This article examines the resource allocations of parents in the form of both shared residence with and financial transfers to their young adult sons. Based on an overlapping generations model incorporating a game between parents and adult children, estimates of the determinants of such transfers are obtained from the kinship-linked cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys. The estimates suggest that both types of parental assistance are as important as governmental transfers in supporting...
