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Labor Market Experience and the Gender Gap

Maoz, Yishay; Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

the early stage of their life and join the labor force late in life with low skills and little labor market experience …

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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

Falcão, Bruno; Soares, Rodrigo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage-gap are generated as part of the same process of demographic transition that leads to reductions in fertility. There have been significant increases in the labor supply of women in...

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Why are Married Men Working So Much?

Knowles, John - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

We document a negative trend in the leisure of men married to women aged 25-45, relative to that of their wives, and a positive trend in relative housework. We develop a simple bargaining model of marriage, divorce and allocations of leisure-time and housework. Calibration to US data shows the...

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US Earnings and Employment Dynamics 1961 - 2002: Facts and Interpretation

Nagypal, Eva; Eckstein, Zvi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

satisfacctorily address these differences among the genders. Looking at broad occupation groups, we find large returns to occupation … beyond that to education, which imply that occupation is an important measure of skill besides education. Despite the large … return to their skills. Any theory addressing the changes in the wage and employment structure should also incorporate …

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The Welfare Consequences of the NBA: Superstar Markets and Human Capital Accumulation

Menzly, Lior; Kumar, Krishna B. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

qualify for either occupation results in the agent becoming a â€œwaiterâ€. College education involves tuition costs, which … those receiving large enough transfers enrolling in college and the rest working only on their basketball skills. We …

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Learning and the Return to Private Equity

Campanale, Claudio - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper suggests a solution to the puzzling finding documented in Moskowitz and Vissing-Jorgensen (2002) that the return to an index of private equity is equal to the return to the CRSP index of public equity even though investment in private firms is substantially riskier. It presents an...

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Human Capital Portfolios and the Distribution of Earnings

Smith, Eric - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Relative Stagnation alla Turca

Adamopoulos, Tasso; Akyol, Ahmet - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Turkey is the only founding member of the OECD that has not converged to the US in terms of per-capita GDP since 1950: its real GDP per capita is stuck at 20% of that of the US. At a proximate level, we show that Turkey's relative stagnation over the past 50 years is due to: (1) the relative...

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Fertility and Female Employment: a Different View of the Last 50 Years

Buttet, Sebastien; Schoonbroodt, Alice - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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On the Changing Structure of Unemployment Duration

Sahin, Aysegul; Mukoyama, Toshihiko - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate in the Post-War United States. First we analyze if changes in the demographic composition of U.S. labor force can explain the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In...

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