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作者：Konya, Istvan
摘要：This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article's key contribution is the joint analysis of the assimilation and migration decisions, which highlights the inefficiency of some commonly advocated policy tools to achieve the first best. U. S. data provide preliminary support for the model's im...
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作者：Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We use a unique data set of California births to ask whether intergenerational correlations in health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status. We find that if a mother was low birth weight, her child is significantly more likely to be low birth weight, even when we compare mothers who are sisters. Second, the intergenerational transmission of low birth weight is stronger for mothers in high poverty zip codes. Third, low birth weight affects proxies for later socioeconomic status. Fou...
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作者：Stevenson, Betsey
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This article considers how divorce law alters the incentives for couples to invest in their marriage, focusing on the impact of unilateral divorce laws on investments in new marriages. Differences across states between 1970 and 1980 provide useful quasi-experimental variation with which to consider incentives to invest in several types of marriage-specific capital: spouse's education, children, household specialization, and home ownership. I find that adoption of unilateral divorce regardless ...
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作者：Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A.
作者单位：University of Manitoba; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test Costa and Kahn's colocation hypothesis, which predicts that power couples-couples in which both spouses have college degrees-are more likely to migrate to the largest cities than part-power couples or power singles. We find no support for this hypothesis. Instead, regression analyses suggest that only the education of the husband and not the joint education profile of the couple affects the propensity to migrate to large metropolitan are...
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作者：Boning, Brent; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; CNA (The Center for Naval Analyses); Stanford University
摘要：Using unique panel data on production lines in U. S. minimills, we analyze the adoption of problem-solving teams and group incentive pay and their effects on productivity. Almost every line ultimately adopts group incentives. However, problem-solving teams are found almost exclusively in lines with more complex production processes. Consistent with these patterns, fixed-effects models reveal increased productivity under group incentives in all lines, while teams raise productivity in lines wit...
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作者：Gonzalez-Chapela, Jorge
作者单位：Universitat d'Alacant
摘要：We examine whether and how variations in the price of recreation goods influence men's allocation of market work. For the United States, individual-level data are combined with metropolitan-area-level price indices to estimate the male elasticity of intertemporal substitution of market work with respect to the price of recreation goods, which is found around 0.16 and statistically significant. The allocation of market work in response to changes in the price of recreation goods would create mo...
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作者：Lange, Fabian
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：The employer-learning literature finds support for statistical discrimination on the basis of schooling. How economically relevant statistical discrimination is depends on how fast employers learn about workers' productive types. This article is the first to estimate the speed of employer learning. Employers learn quickly. Initial expectation errors decline by 50% within 3 years. This estimate places an upper bound on the contribution of signaling. This bound varies with the speed of employer ...
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作者：Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Using March Current Population Survey data, we investigate married women's labor supply from 1980 to 2000. We find a large rightward shift in their labor supply function for annual hours in the 1980s, with little shift in the 1990s. These shifts account for most of the slowdown in the growth of labor supply during this period. A major development was the dramatic decrease in the responsiveness of married women's labor supply to their own and husbands' wages: their own wage elasticity fell by 5...
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作者：Schoenberg, Uta
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：Recent evidence suggests that employers acquire more precise information about a worker's productivity the more time he or she spends in the labor market. The following question arises: Is learning symmetric, that is, do all employers have the same information about workers' productivity, or is learning asymmetric, that is, does the current employer have superior information about workers' productivity? This article develops a learning model with endogenous mobility that nests both learning hy...
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作者：Kapteyn, Arie; Ypma, Jelmer Y.
作者单位：RAND Corporation; University of Groningen
摘要：We provide both a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relation between administrative and survey data. By distinguishing between different sources of deviations between survey and administrative data we are able to reproduce several stylized facts. We illustrate the implications of different error sources for estimation in (simple) econometric models and find potentially very substantial biases. This article shows the sensitivity of some findings in the literature for the assumption that...
