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Return to training and establishment size: a reexamination of the size-wage puzzle

Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009

The paper reexamines the employer size-wage puzzle using NLSY79 data. The empirical results show that even for those who never receive any training from their employers, size-wage premium still exists and is quantitatively important. Wage increases associated with receiving on-the-job training...

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Imperfect information, on-the-job training, and the employer size-wage puzzle: Theory and evidence

Feng, Shuaizhang; Zheng, Bingyong - 2010

This paper develops a two-period labor market model with imperfect information and on-the-job training, and uses data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohorts (NLSY79) to test its predictions. We find that training does not explain the positive relationship between employer size...

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …

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