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People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become … more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are … changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. We particularly focus on how the increased importance …

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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s

Juhn, Chinhui; Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto; Airola, Jim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...

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Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...

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The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

Mulligan, Casey; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In the 1970's, women were relatively equal (to each other) in terms of their earnings potential, so that nonwage factors may have dominated female labor supply decisions and...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...

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Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

PHILIPPON, Thomas; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

value added has been fairly linear, it hides a dramatic change in the composition of skills and occupations. In the early …

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Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers...

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This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089122

Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049900

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