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Empleo y salarios : el círculo de la pobreza
Arze Vargas, Carlos (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000886996
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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender
Hu, Luojia - 2005
This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467198
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Financial Markets and Wages
Michelacci, Claudio - 2005
financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: They pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become … unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this … way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467637
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Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa
Levinsohn, James - 2004
This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467702
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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor
Beegle, Kathleen - 2004
, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467708
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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004
What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467783
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Neighbors as Negatives : Relative Earnings and Well-Being
Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - 2004
This paper investigates whether individuals feel worse off when others around them earn more. In other words, do people care about relative position and does lagging behind the Joneses' diminish well-being? To answer this question, I match individual-level panel data containing a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468023
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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004
We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many measurement and identification difficulties, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468100
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Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes
Cawley, John - 2004
endogeneity of nursing home wages. The results from the IV models are consistent with the theory of factor substitution: higher … nursing home wages are associated with lower staffing, greater use of materials (specifically, physical restraints), and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468228
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
Heckman, James J. - 2003
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468966