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Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling
Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1991
use both a signaling model and a human capital model to explore how the relationship between ability and schooling could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475313
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
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Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look
Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1993
We examine evidence on omitted-ability bias in estimates of the economic return to schooling, using proxies for unobserved ability. We consider measurement error in these ability proxies and the potential endogeneity of both experience and schooling, and examine wages at labor market entry and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474703
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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market : Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market
He, Haoran - 2024
different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider … using doctors' choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors … female- and male-dominated fields the gender gap in signaling decreases with number of customer reviews of doctors. More …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072871
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Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality
Constantine, Jill - 1994
Shifts in the incidence of various types of training over the 1980s favored more-educated, more-experienced workers. Coupled with the fact that this training is associated with higher wages, these shifts suggest that training may have contributed to the growth of wage inequality in this period....
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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits
Neumark, David - 2011
The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...
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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women : Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2005
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
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Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2012
Employment-contingent health insurance creates incentives for ill workers to remain employed at a sufficient level (usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast...
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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004
the United States that contains detailed demographic information on workers (most notably, information on education). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468369
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Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
Blackburn, McKinley - 1991
Interindustry wage differentials in wage regressions estimated for individuals have been interpreted as evidence consistent with efficiency wage models. A principal competing explanation is that these differentials are generated by differences across workers in unobserved ability. This paper...
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