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The Effects of Aggregate and Gender-Specific Labor Demand Shocks on Child Health

Page, Marianne - 2016

children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … labor market affects children. Specifically, we find evidence that improvements in labor market conditions facing women are … displacement, suggest that family income and maternal time use are both important mechanisms mediating the effects of aggregate …

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Exploration for Human Capital : Evidence from the MBA Labor Market

Kuhnen, Camelia M. - 2015

We empirically investigate the effect of uncertainty on corporate hiring. Using novel data from the labor market for MBA graduates, we show that uncertainty regarding how well job candidates fit with a firm's industry hinders hiring, and that firms value probationary work arrangements that...

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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...

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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico

Atkin, David - 2012

This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across commuting zones to show that school dropout...

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General human capital and employment adjustment in the great depression: apprentices and journeymen in UK engineering

Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Employer learning and schooling-related statistical discrimination in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Is education used as a signaling device for productivity in developing countries? : Evidence from Ghana

Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …

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Preferences, Inequities, and Incentives in the Substitute Teacher Labor Market

Kraft, Matthew A.; Conklin, Megan Lane; Falken, Grace T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the labor supply decisions of substitute teachers - a large, on-demand market with broad shortages and inequitable supply. In 2018, Chicago Public Schools implemented a targeted bonus program designed to reduce unfilled teacher absences in largely segregated Black schools with...

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