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compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index Survey of the U …
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-distance migrants often change jobs or employment status, altering the spatial allocation of labor. Using historical reports of the …
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drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7-30% and relative wages by 1 … the absence of testing. -- employer drug testing ; discrimination ; black employment ; labor market outcome disparities …
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We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest...
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We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
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Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...
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The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...
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