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Why Do Wage Profiles Slope Upwards? Tests of the General Human Capital Model

Neumark, David - 1994

This paper tests some empirical implications of the general human capital model's explanation of rising wage profiles. At the individual level, the model implies that there will be a negative relationship between the initial wage level and wage growth of young, inexperienced workers. At the...

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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

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Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials

Blackburn, McKinley - 1991

Interindustry wage differentials in wage regressions estimated for individuals have been interpreted as evidence consistent with efficiency wage models. A principal competing explanation is that these differentials are generated by differences across workers in unobserved ability. This paper...

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People Versus Machines : The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs

Lordan, Grace - 2017

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people - focusing on low-skilled workers for whom such substitution may be spurred by minimum wage increases. Based on CPS data from 1980-2015,...

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Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?

Neumark, David - 1999

Interest in the potential effects of different systems for organizing work and managing employees on the performance of organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern about the sources of competitiveness in...

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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

Neumark, David - 2010

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...

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"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" : Evidence of Directed Search from a Field Experiment

He, Haoran; Neumark, David; Weng, Qian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

raise application rates for job seekers with wage offers above reservation wages, and that - among the latter - the increase … in application rates is stronger for those with higher reservation wages. The latter two types of evidence are consistent …

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The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws : A Provisional Review

Adams, Scott - 2004

goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common …

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Breast Cancer Survival, Work, and Earnings

Bradley, Cathy J. - 2001

-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …

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Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics : Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 1996

-level production functions and wage equations, and thus to compare relative marginal products and relative wages for various groups of … workers. The data and empirical framework lead to new evidence on numerous questions regarding the determination of wages …, questions that hinge on the relationship between wages and marginal products of workers in different demographic groups. These …

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