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Bracha, Anat; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2012 - This version: July 10, 2012

relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …

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The supply side of discrimination : evidence from the labor supply of Boston taxi drivers

Jackson, Osborne - 2018 - This version: June, 2018

This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions of trips from 2010-2015, I explore whether the labor supply behavior of taxi drivers differs by the gender, racial/ethnic, or age composition of Boston neighborhoods. I find...

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The responsiveness of married women's labor force participation to income and wages : recent changes and possible explanations

Bradbury, Katharine L. (contributor); Katz, Jane (contributor) - 2008

to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even … through 2006, we find that the decline in responsiveness to husbands’ wages has come to an endat least for the time beingand … even find evidence of rising responsiveness to husbands’ wages. This increase in the cross-wage elasticity of participation …

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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades

Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006

inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. …

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Measuring household spending and payment habits : the role of "typical" and "specific" time frames in survey questions

Angrisani, Marco; Kapteyn, Arie; Schuh, Scott - 2012 - This version: June 2012

We designed and fielded an experimental module in the American Life Panel (ALP) where we ask individuals to report the number of their purchases and the amount paid by debit cards, cash, credit cards, and personal checks. The design of the experiment features several stages of randomization....

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Wealth concentration in the United States using an expanded measure of net worth

Jacobs, Lindsay; Llanes, Elizabeth; Moore, Kevin; … - 2021 - This version: April 2021

Defined benefit (DB) pensions and Social Security are two important resources for financing retirement in the United States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent that these broadly held resources substitute for...

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Using unexpected recalls to examine the long-term earnings effects of job displacement

Henderson, Yolanda Kodrzycki (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the long-term earnings consequences of permanent layoffs initiated during the early 1990s, using a sample of Massachusetts workers who enrolled in Job Training Partnership Act Title III programs, and who remained strongly attached to the state's labor force. The comparison...

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The impact of immigration on occupational wages : evidence from Britain

Nickell, Stephen J. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …

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The effect of unemployment duration on future earnings and other outcomes

Cooper, Daniel - 2014 - This version: January 13, 2014

One of the distinguishing features of the Great Recession and its aftermath has been the spike in the number of individuals experiencing long-duration unemployment spells, defined as lasting more than 26 weeks. This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment duration on individual's future...

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Foreign nurse importation to the United States and the supply of native registered nurses

Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2014 - This version: July 31, 2014

Importing foreign nurses has been used as a strategy to ease nursing shortages in the United States. The effectiveness of this policy critically depends on the long-run response of native-born nurses. We examine how the immigration of foreign-born registered nurses (RNs) affects the occupational...

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