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We analyze the early labor market outcomes of U.S. college graduates from the classes of 1974 to 2011, as a function of the economic conditions into which they graduated. We have three main findings. First, poor labor market conditions substantially disrupt early careers. A large recession at...
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are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables … widened. Changes in parental education seem to generate many of the observed changes …
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productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically … productivity and the interaction between experience and a variable that firms can easily observe, such as years of education. We … wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test …
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We provide new estimates of the return to job seniority using data similar to that used by Abraham and Farber (1987), Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991) as well as a new PSID sample. Topel's use of a wage and a tenure that refer to different years, his use of the Current Population...
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