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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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Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

Oster, Emily; Millett, M. Bryce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

panel data on school enrollment from a comprehensive school-level administrative dataset. This is merged with detailed data … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we … estimate the impact of introducing a new ITES center in the vicinity of the school on enrollment. We find that introducing a …

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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk

Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Ozkan, Serdar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing 10 percent of all...

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Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China

Whalley, John; Mao, Risheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper uses a firm level multi-industry data set covering 456 Chinese manufacturing sectors to assess the implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences in both industry and firm characteristics within...

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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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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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 important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including...

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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...

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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...

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