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An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting
Lentz, Rasmus; Bagger, Jesper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
15%. We measure the output loss due to mismatch by asking how much greater output would be if the estimated population of …
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Mismatch Unemployment
topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher … unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … database covering the universe of online U.S. job advertisements. Mismatch across industries and occupations explains at most 1 …
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Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle
Foote, Christopher Lee; Ryan, Richard W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long run has suffered the most from automation and international trade. How might long-run occupational polarization be related to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find...
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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085416
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969389
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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Bleakley, Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951333
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Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey
Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085152
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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
Solon, Gary; Bjorklund, Anders; Jantti, Markus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085361
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu; Brummund, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
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The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data from Detroit's welfare-to-work program, we apply the...
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