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作者：Neal, D
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This article examines the effect of Catholic secondary schooling on high school graduation rates, college graduation rates, and future wages. The article introduces new measures of access to Catholic schools that serve as potential instruments for Catholic school attendance. Catholic secondary schools are geographically concentrated in urban areas, and Catholic schooling does increase educational attainment significantly among urban minorities. The gains from Catholic schooling are modest for ...
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作者：Bronars, SG; Famulari, M
摘要：We estimate employer-specific wage, tenure, and wage growth differentials using a unique Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey of full-time, white-collar workers. Employer wage and tenure differentials, conditional on worker characteristics, are substantial in these data. Education, potential experience, and tenure are highly correlated within an establishment. High-wage establishments generally employ higher quality workers, and the most skilled men and professionals typically work ...
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作者：Mayshar, J; Halevy, Y
摘要：We analyze the organization of employment in nonsimultaneous shifts, considering the shift composition of manufacturing employment, both in the business cycle frequency and in the long run. With regard to the short run, we argue that shiftwork would be procyclical and that this, combined with the inherent lumpiness of shifts, may help resolve the puzzle of the procyclicality of labor productivity. With regard to the long run, we identify channels that may account for the increase in shiftwork ...
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作者：WinterEbmer, R; Zweimuller, J
作者单位：Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：In this study gender differentials in professional status attainment are analyzed. In the theoretical literature, unequal treatment of females is often rationalized by their higher probability of quitting. To test this hypothesis empirically we use data from the Austrian microcensus and find that neither the risk of childbearing nor different productive characteristics can explain the crowding of females in lower hierarchical positions. Females have to fulfill higher ability standards to be pr...
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作者：MacIsaac, D; Rama, M
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of the existence of many mandated benefits. Using the 1994 Living Standards Measurement Survey, we show that the effect of these benefits is actually mitigated by a reduction of base earnings, that is, of the foundation on which they are paid. The reduction is larger in the private than in the public sector and is negligible for unionized workers. Me also show that, in spite of mandated benefits, interindustry wage differentials are comparable...
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作者：Wang, RQ
摘要：In this article I intend to justify the rare use of application fees in labor markets. I analyze a model in which there is a training or testing period preceding a worker's effective production period. With various commitment abilities of firms, I find that application fees are used if and only if all future wages can be committed before a worker applies; otherwise, no application fees will be charged. The model is then modified to explain the positive fees in journal submissions and college a...
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作者：Hildreth, AKG; Oswald, AJ
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：A central question in labor economics and macroeconomics is whether the textbook competitive model provides an adequate representation of the labor market. Using longitudinal data on companies and establishments, this article suggests that it may not. As predicted by rent-sharing models of the labor market, changes in profitability are shown to feed through into long-run changes in wages. These are not temporary wage effects and are not driven by the unionized workplaces in the data. The artic...
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作者：Weiss, Y; Willis, RJ
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This article investigates the role of surprises in marital dissolution. Surprises consists of changes in the predicted earning capacity of either spouse. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 is used. We find that an unexpected increase in the husband's earning capacity reduces the divorce hazard, while an unexpected increase in the wife's earning capacity raises the divorce hazard. Couples sort into marriage according to characteristics that are likely to ...
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作者：Ruhm, CJ
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This study examines how high school employment affects future economic attainment. There is no indication that light to moderate job commitments ever have a detrimental effect; instead, hours worked during the senior grade are positively correlated with future earnings, fringe benefits, and occupational status. These gains occur even though employed seniors attain slightly less education than their counterparts. The results are robust across a variety of specifications and suggest that student...
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作者：Revenga, A
摘要：This article analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on employment and wages in the Mexican manufacturing sector. The study documents that many of the rents generated by trade protection were absorbed by workers in the form of a wage premium. Trade liberalization affected firm-level employment and wages by shifting down industry product and labor demand. This in itself may have accounted for a 3%-4% decline in real wages on average. But trade reform also reduced the rents available to be c...
