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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...

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Estimating the social value of higher education: willingness to pay for community and technical colleges

Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2009

Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...

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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...

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New estimates of public employment and training program net impacts: a nonexperimental evaluation of the workforce investment act program

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, based on administrative data from 12 states, covering approximately 160,000 WIA participants and...

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Down from the mountain: skill upgrading and wages in Appalachia

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Ziliak, James Patrick; … - 2009

Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare Appalachia, with its wide mix of urban and rural areas, to other parts of the U.S., and find that...

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The labor-market returns to community college degrees, diplomas, and certificates

Jepsen, Christopher; Troske, Kenneth R.; Coomes, Paul A. - 2012

data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that control for differences among students in pre-college earnings and …

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Grazing, goods and girth: determinants and effects

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...

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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women: what is the role of education?

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … education work more before the birth of the first child, but children have larger negative effects on their level of labor …

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