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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
Munasinghe, Lalith - 2000
higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Staiger, Douglas - 1999
of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...
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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …
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Validating Hiring Criteria
Weiss, Andrew - 1987
We construct a model in which firms use workers' productivities in determining their job assignments. A worker's productivity must exceed some lower bound to satisfy the minimum qualifications for a particular job. If the worker's productivity exceeds some upper bound he is promoted. Under these...
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Tied Wage-Hours Offers and the Endogeneity of Wages
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 1984
implements a pair of tests for the exogeneity of wages in a longitudinal labor supply model, and for the particular failure of … hours Granger -- cause wages at the individual level. The second test involves a simultaneous estimation of labor supply and … from the process generating wages, even when long time series are available on a sample of individuals …
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Dynamic Aspects of Earnings Mobility
Lillard, Lee A. - 1976
This paper proposes an econometric methodology to deal with life cycle earnings and mobility among discrete earnings classes. First, we use panel data on male log earnings to estimate an earnings function with permanent and serially correlated transitory components due to both measured and...
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The Distribution of Earnings Profiles in Longitudinal Data
Borjas, George J. - 1976
We take advantage of our longitudinal data to explore individual variation in the parameters of individual earnings functions. (1) For this purpose we fit an earnings function to each of the individual histories in the sample.(2) We then try to ascertain the extent to which the estimated...
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Male-Female Differences in Wages and Employment : A Specific Human Capital Model
Landes, Elisabeth M. - 1974
This paper analyzes the effects of differential turnover patterns and the existence of firm specific training, jointly financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex differences in occupational distribution and...
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From Age-Earnings Profiles to the Distribution of Earnings and Human Wealth
Lillard, Lee A. - 1973
Recent development of explicit theoretical and empirical earnings functions from life cycle human capital investment models increases the potential to explain existing earnings distributions and to predict changes in it. The purpose of this paper is to suggest how these earnings functions can be...
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