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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Böhm, Michael J. - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies Under Skill-Biased Technical Change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2021
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew C.; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2022
, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga - 2019
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...
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Skills Scarcity and Export Intensity
Perroni, Carlo - 2019
We describe a model of trade with input based product differentiation and non-proportional trade costs that is capable of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay to their workers. These correlations arise in the model...
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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