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Movin' on up : hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps

Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2012

Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...

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Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?

Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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Slow traffic, fast food : the effects of time lost on food store choice

Bencsik, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in highway traffic data in Los Angeles. We find that on days...

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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach

Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008

This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...

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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival

Brown, J. David (contributor); … - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Human capital persistence and development

Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai

Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected …

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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-connectedness approach

Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024

investigates the directionally dynamic connectedness among WTI and Shanghai crude oil futures and currency markets. We explored …

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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor); … - 2007

attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …

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