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Culture, Human Capital, and the Earnings of West Indian Blacks
Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
Black immigrants from the British West Indies and their descendants have long held the interest of historians and sociologists because they provide a means of understanding the influence of differing cultural background on black economic progress. Numerous accounts from before World War II...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102006
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The Effects of Metropolitan Job Growth on the Size Distribution of Family Income
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991
This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141943
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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995
returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141946
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Group Wage Curves
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
Using panel data on U.S. MSAs, this paper estimates how a typical MSA's wages of different demographic groups, and … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102010
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Wages, Layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Volodymyr - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593467
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatisation: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593529
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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Wozniak, Abigail - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012
wages by 1.4–13.0 percent, with the largest shifts among low skilled black men. Results suggest that employers substitute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850011
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The Role of Public Policy in Skills Development of Black Workers in the 21st Century
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
This paper discusses the role of public policy in the skills development system of the U.S. It further examines the implications of that policy for the skill development and career progression of black workers. The paper describes the current "system" for skills development in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012109
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A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
DeRango, Kelly - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
A number of empirical studies have tested the spatial mismatch hypothesis by examining the commuting times of blacks and whites. This note points out that the link between spatial mismatch and commuting times may be weak when employment probabilities decline as the distance from job site to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101975
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Displacement, Asymmetric Information,<br>and Heterogeneous Human Capital
Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
In a seminal paper, Gibbons and Katz (1991) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layoffs than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101977