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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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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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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … aversion (0.9282) and the estimates indicate that both wage and employment rate dispersions decrease significantly with …

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On the specification of mincerian wage regressions with heterogeneity, non-linearity, non-separability, and heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The promotion dynamics of American executives

Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …

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