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作者：Hendricks, W; DeBrock, L; Koenker, R
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：In this article, we analyze the impact of uncertainty on the hiring process. We show the connection between models of statistical discrimination where uncertainty can work against groups that have less reliable indicators of future productivity and models of option value where uncertainty about future productivity can be beneficial for these groups. These models generate hypotheses about the relationship between ex ante hiring patterns and ex post productivity. This is applied to the market fo...
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作者：Weiss, Y; Sauer, RM; Gotlibovski, M
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo
摘要：This article develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the entry of highly skilled immigrants from the former Soviet Union into the Israeli labor market. The estimated parameters of the model, together with information on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, imply that, on average, immigrants can expect lifetime earnings to fall short of the lifetime earnings of comparable natives by 57%. Of this figure, 14 percentage points reflect frictions associated with nonemployment and...
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作者：Brueckner, JK; Zenou, Y
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Southampton
摘要：The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of housing discrimination on the wages and unemployment rates of black workers. The unemployment effect is first analyzed using a simple minimum-wage model. An efficiency-wage model is then adopted in order to endogenize both unemployment and wages. Under both models, suburban housing discrimination leads to a higher unemployment rate for blacks in the central city than in the suburbs. Under the efficiency-wage model, black wages are also lower...
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作者：Chen, KP; Chiang, SH; Leung, SF
作者单位：Academia Sinica - Taiwan; National Taiwan University; University of York - UK; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：This article proposes a formal model of migration in which workers are heterogeneous and markets are stochastically correlated. We derive and characterize the optimal migration pattern of a family. We show that migration can take place even when migrants earn less abroad and, surprisingly, when earnings in the foreign country are riskier for every member of the family. Moreover, it may well be an optimal arrangement to have only dependents migrate, thus rationalizing the recent dependent-orien...
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作者：Stinebrickner, R; Stinebrickner, TR
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Unique new data from a college with a mandatory work-study program are used to examine the relationship between working during school and academic performance. Particular attention is paid to the importance of biases that are potentially present because the number of hours that are worked is endogenously chosen by the individual. The results suggest that, even if results appear reasonable, a researcher should be cautious when drawing policy conclusions about the relationship between hours work...
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作者：Johnson, JH
摘要：In this article, I provide both econometric and case study evidence on the labor market effects of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1985 Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority decision that made 80% of state and local government workers eligible to receive compensation for overtime hours worked. Empirical evidence suggests that the behavior of public sector workers is consistent with a Coasian model in which overtime provisions are explicitly bargained for by the parties involved, likel...
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作者：Baum, CL II
作者单位：Middle Tennessee State University
摘要：More mothers engage in marketplace work today than ever before, with over 33% returning to work by the time their child is 3 months old. This article identifies the effects of maternal marketplace work in the initial months of an infant's life on the child's cognitive development. Results suggest that such work in the first year of a child's life has detrimental effects. Where significant, the results also indicate negative effects of maternal employment in the child's first quarter of life. H...
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作者：Holzer, HJ; Stoll, MA
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This article examines employer demand for welfare recipients using new employer survey data. The results suggest that demand is high but sensitive to business cycle conditions. Factors including skill needs and industry affect prospective employer demand for recipients, while other characteristics that affect their relative supply to employers (e. g., establishment location) influence whether such demand is realized in actual hiring. The conditional demand for black and Hispanic welfare recipi...
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作者：Bound, J; Turner, S
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Virginia
摘要：The flood of veterans enrolling in college at the end of World War II contributed to widespread rhetoric that the G. I. Bill brought about the democratization of American higher education. Whether military service, combined with educational benefits, led World War II veterans to increase their investments in college has received little research attention. Our estimation strategy focuses on between-cohort differences in military service, and we use census data to compare the collegiate attainme...
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作者：Baker, G; Shaw, K; Smith, A
作者单位：Harvard University; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Chicago
