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Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …
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There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
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This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
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This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals …
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assistance benefits reduce employment, and more suggestive evidence that they affect marital status and living arrangements. The …
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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
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"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …
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