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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...
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Educational Opportunity and Income Inequality
Willen, Paul - 2004
Affordable higher education is, and has been, a key element of social policy in the United States with broad bipartisan support. Financial aid has substantially increased the number of people who complete university - generally thought to be a good thing. We show, however, that making education...
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Wage Dynamics and Returns to Unobserved Skill
Lochner, Lance - 2018
Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the U.S. over the past few decades. We identify and estimate a general model of log wage residuals that incorporates: (i) changing returns to unobserved skills, (ii) a changing distribution of...
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work
Barth, Erling - 2016
We augment standard ln earnings equations with variables reflecting unmeasured attributes of workers and measured and unmeasured attributes of their employer. Using panel employee-establishment data for US manufacturing we find that the observable employer characteristics that most impact...
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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Harrigan, James - 2011
acumen, and we estimate this correlation to be large using firm-level data from Chile in 1995. A fall in trade costs leads to …
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The Behavior of Interest Rates and Real Exchange Rates During a Liberalization Episode : The Case of Chile 1973-83
Edwards, Sebastian - 1985
Chile. The paper concentrates on the behavior of the real exchange rate and nominal and real interest rates during the … period 1977-83. It is argued that as a consequence of the liberalization of the capital account in Chile in 1979-81, dramatic … presented and applied to the case of Chile. The results obtained suggest that during this period interest rates responded both …
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Wage Dispersion and Country Price Levels
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1997
The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether there is a relationship between the degree of wage dispersion in a country and its price level relative to other countries, compared in a common currency. It was found that once a country's real per capita income and deviations of its exchange...
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