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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a … of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among …

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since the early 1970s. While educational earnings differentials have expanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1980s, the college wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In...

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Interindustry Wage Differences and Industry Characteristics

Dickens, William T. - 1986

This paper examines the extent of interindustry wage differences for nonunion workers and finds that even after controlling for a wide range of individual characteristics and geographic location a substantial amount of individual wage variation can be accounted for by industry differences. In...

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Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market

Borjas, George J. - 1996

We compare two approaches to analyzing the effects of immigration on the labor market and find that the estimated effect of immigration on U.S. native labor outcomes depends critically on the empirical experiment used. Area analyses contrast the level or change in immigration by area with the...

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A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1993

This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and...

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Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987 : Supply and Demand Factors

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1991

A simple supply and demand framework is used to analyze changes in the U.S. wage structure from 1963 to 1987. Rapid secular growth in the demand for more-educated workers, 'more-skilled' workers, and females appears to be the driving force behind observed changes in the wage structure. Measured...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1991

The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite a large expansion in the college/high school wage differential during the 1980s in the private sector, the public sector college wage premium...

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Job Queues and Wages : New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure

Holzer, Harry J. - 1988

This paper uses job applications- data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex-ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessively of labor as measured by the number of job applications received for the most recent positions...

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Inter-Industry Wage Differences and Theories of Wage Determination

Dickens, William T. - 1987

Numerous studies have shown large differences in wages for apparently similar workers across industries. These findings pose a challenge to standard model s of labor market behavior. A problem with past studies of industry wage differences is that they have failed to distinguish between union...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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