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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2007
and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …
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How hurricanes affect employment and wages in local labor markets
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the labor market. We find that earnings of the average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within...
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? : A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J. (contributor);  … - 2005
significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by …
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Employee labor market information : comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates
Polachek, Solomon W. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 5 (1998) 2, pp. 231-242
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