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Pavan, Ronni - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper develops and estimates a search model in which career-specific and firm-specific matches determine job …

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Wage Distributions and Wage Dynamics in Europe and the US: Lessons from a Simple Job Search Model

Robin, Jean-Marc; Jolivet, Gregory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

Job search models of the labor market hypothesize a very tight correspondence between the determinants of labor … systematic examination of whether this correspondence is present in the data by estimating a rudimentary partial equilibrium job … job search model fits the data surprisingly well. This also allows us to point at a number of interesting empirical …

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The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences that (Don't?) Matter

Turon, Helene; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Estimating a General Equilibrium Model of Intersectoral Mobility with Aggregate Shocks

Lee, Donghoon; Wolpin, Kenneth - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

A dynamic general equilibrium model of work, schooling, occupational and sectoral decisions is developed and estimated. The model is fit to data on life cycle employment, schooling, occupational and sectoral decisions, and on life cycle labor earnings, within and between cohorts observed in the...

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Occupational Specificity of Human Capital

Manovskii, Iourii; Kambourov, Gueorgui - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

In this paper we document substantial returns to occupational tenure. Everything else being constant, ten years of occupational tenure are likely to increase wages by at least $19\%$. Moreover, we show that when occupational experience is taken into account, tenure with an industry or an...

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Understanding Wage Inequality: Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change

Guvenen, Fatih; Kuruscu, Burhanettin - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper introduces a tractable general equilibrium overlapping-generations model of human capital accumulation, and shows that it provides a consistent explanation of several key features of the evolution of the U.S. wage distribution from 1970 to 2000. The framework is based on the...

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Labor Market Complementarity: A Perspective on Inequality and Productivity Dynamics

Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Two salient changes in the US wage structure have occurred over the past three decades: first, a sharp increase in the wage premium to schooling despite a continual increase in the supply of schooling, and second, a rise and then fall of the wage premium to work experience. Capital-skill...

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Technological Change in the Production of Human Capital: Implications for Human Capital Stocks, Wages and Skill Differentials

Robinson, Chris; Bowlus, Audra J. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

In this paper we explicitly model and estimate an education system that produces human capital. An important innovation is that technological change in the production functions associated with any level of education is permitted and the rate of change may be different at different levels and for...

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The Role of Education in Economic Growth through the Sectoral Reallocation of Labor

Lee, Soohyung - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

raises the probability of a worker obtaining a non-agricultural job. To extract the causal effect of education, I use the … worker will obtain a non-agricultural job by 4.53%. However, what does this estimation imply for transition and aggregate …

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Immigration and the Survival of the Welfare State

Ortega, Francesc - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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