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The evolution of rotation group bias : will the real unemployment rate please stand up?

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - 2014

This paper documents that rotation group bias - the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month … groups; both should be nationally representative samples. The rise in rotation group bias is driven by a growing tendency for … bias. We find that rotation group bias increased discretely after the 1994 CPS redesign and that rising nonresponse is …

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The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor); … - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence

Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor); … - 2008

Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...

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The reliability of subjective well-being measures

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life …

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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...

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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

reservation wage is measured from a previous interview to avoid bias due to cognitive dissonance. Job offers are more likely to be …

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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data

Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know it?

Blinder, Alan S. (contributor); Krueger, Alan B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...

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