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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134538
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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination
Antecol, Heather - 2011
Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers … workers' perceptions of discrimination that drive formal complaints to the EEOC. Yet the relationship between statistical and … self-assessed measures of discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122682
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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation : A Comparison of Methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012
2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096439
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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978158
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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133903
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The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2020
introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824998
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - 2021
relatively small wealth gap between Australian- and foreign-born households exists because immigrants to Australia do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317096
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It's Where You Work : Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S
Barth, Erling - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046674
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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?
Antecol, Heather - 2011
This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133174
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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133372