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Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-state Tuition at State C...

Chin, Aimee; Juhn, Chinhui - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Ten states, beginning with Texas and California in 2001, have passed laws permitting undocumented students to pay the in-state tuition rate - rather than the more expensive out-of-state tuition rate - at public universities and colleges. We exploit state-time variation in the passage of the laws...

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Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid

Angrist, Joshua; Autor, David; Hudson, Sally; Pallais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Does financial aid increase college attendance and completion? Selection bias and the high implicit tax rates imposed by overlapping aid programs make this question difficult to answer. This paper reports initial findings from a randomized evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship...

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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the …

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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Men, Women, and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality

Juhn, Chinhui; Ujhelyi, Gergely; Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity and workers are differentiated by skill as well as …

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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s

Juhn, Chinhui; Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto; Airola, Jim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

and education. …

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Wage Inequality and Industrial Change: Evidence from Five Decades

Juhn, Chinhui - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

skill such as the wage percentile, education and occupation indicate that wage inequality between more and less skilled male … the impact of industrial change on male wage inequality over a period of five decades (1940-1990). Alternative measures of … categories may be closely related to overall wage inequality. Cross sectional regressions based on state level data also show …

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