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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US

Winters, John V. - 2012

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits …

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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …' state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - 2012

towns" and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates who stay in the college town where they … experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Heterogeneous returns to human capital and dynamic self-selection

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...

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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over what types of human capital are most important. Both...

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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990

Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016

for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …

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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states

Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016

Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...

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