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作者：Pavan, Ronni
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：In this article, I present structural estimates of a search model that flexibly incorporates general human capital accumulation along with career and firm choice, where a career is empirically identified as a combination of industry and occupation. I use these estimates to empirically distinguish between the relative importance of various factors for generating wage growth over the life cycle. Evidence presented in the article highlights the importance of considering the two-stage search proce...
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作者：Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We estimate the causal effect of attending a state Faith school on primary education achievement in England using administrative student-level data and implementing various strategies to control for students' selection into Faith schooling. Our regressions control for fixed effects in prior achievement and residential postcode to compare pupils who are close residential neighbors and have identical observable ability. We also use information on future school choices to control for preferences ...
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作者：Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J.
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. In part, we do this by comparing an objective indicator of Mexican descent (based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his parents and grandparents) with the standard subjective measure of Mexican self-identification (based on the respondent's answer to the Hispanic-origin question)...
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作者：Bollinger, Christopher; Ziliak, James P.; Troske, Kenneth R.
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：The Appalachian region has experienced persistently higher poverty and lower earnings than the rest of the United States. We examine whether skill differentials or differences in the returns to those skills lie at the root of the Appalachian wage gap. Using census data, we decompose the Appalachian wage gap using both mean and full distribution methods. Our findings suggest that significant upgrading of skills within the region has prevented the gap from widening over the last 20 years. Additi...
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作者：de Haan, Monique
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：A positive relation between parents' schooling and child's schooling does not necessarily reflect a causal relation. This article uses a new approach to identify intergenerational schooling effects: a non-parametric bounds analysis. By relying on relatively weak and in part testable assumptions, this article obtains informative bounds on the average causal impact of parents' schooling. The tightest bounds, using monotone instrumental variables, show that increasing mother's or father's schooli...
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作者：Abramovsky, Laura; Battistin, Erich; Fitzsimons, Emla; Goodman, Alissa; Simpson, Helen
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; University College London; University of Padua; University of Bristol
摘要：We use unique workplace and employee-level data to evaluate a major UK government pilot program to increase qualification-based, employer-provided training for low-qualified employees. We evaluate the program's effect using a difference-in-differences approach. Using data on eligible employers and workers we find no evidence of a statistically significant effect on the take-up of training in the first 3 years of the program. Our results suggest that the program involved a high level of deadwei...
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作者：Zafar, Basit
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：This study focuses on how college students form expectations about various major-specific outcomes. For this purpose, I collect a panel data set of Northwestern University undergraduates that contains their subjective expectations about major-specific outcomes. Although students tend to be overconfident about their future academic performance, they revise their expectations in expected ways. The updating process is found to be consistent with a Bayesian learning model. I show that learning pla...
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作者：Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Lyon 2
摘要：In labor markets, the ratchet effect refers to a situation where workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or by cutting pay. We model this effect as a multiperiod principal-agent problem with hidden information and study its robustness to labor market competition both theoretically and experimentally. Consistent with our theoretical model, we observe subs...
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作者：Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Gibbons and Katz's asymmetric information model of the labor market predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layoffs than for plant closings. This was borne out in their empirical work. In this article, we examine how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the basic prediction by Gibbons and Katz holds only for white males. We augment their asymmetric information model with heterogeneous human capital...
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作者：Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Borjas, George J.
作者单位：Harvard University; Sabanci University
摘要：Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the workforce. After controlling for permanent factors that determine wages in specific labor markets, little variation remains in the immigrant share. We find significant sampling error in this measure of sup...
