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Does the availability of high-wage jobs low-skilled men affect welfare expenditures? : Evidence from shocks to the steel and coal industries
Black, Dan A.; McKinnish, Terra G.; Sanders, Seth - In: Journal of public economics 87 (2003) 9/10, pp. 1921-1942
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The decline of welfare benefits in the US : the role of wage inequality
Moffitt, Robert A. - In: Journal of public economics 68 (1998) 3, pp. 421-452
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Uncovering the gender participation gap in the crime market
Gavrilova, Evelina; Campaniello, Nadia - 2015
committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
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Tax-benefit systems and the gender gap in income
Doorley, Karina; Keane, Claire - 2020
The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing...
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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2008
The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...
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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna (contributor); Vella, Francis (contributor) - 2007
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
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Gender wage disparities among the highly educated
Black, Dan A.; Haviland, Amelia M.; Sanders, Seth; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 43 (2008) 3, pp. 630-659
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