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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search

Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

between firms and occupations over the course of their career. Workers search for suitable wage and non-pecuniary match values … at firms across occupations given their heterogeneous skill endowments and preferences for employment in each occupation …

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Estimation of an Occupational Choice Model when Occupations are Misclassified

Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper examines occupational choices using a discrete choice model that accounts for the fact that self-reported occupation data is measured with error. Despite evidence from validation studies which suggests that there is a substantial amount of measurement error in self-reported...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619639

Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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Empirical Evidence on Occupation and Industry Specific Human Capital

Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

allowed to vary across occupations, in contrast to existing research which has constrained the parameters of the wage equation … wages after five years of occupation specific experience but do not realize wage gains from industry specific experience. In … contrast, human capital is primarily industry specific in other occupations such as managerial employment where workers realize …

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White discrimination in provision of black education: plantations and towns

Canaday, Neil; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of whites to discriminate. The model...

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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search

Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

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