between individual accident risk and wages, but only in high risk occupations. The latter relationship may downward bias or … is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make … risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and …

We propose a theory-based adjustment to the labor income share to correct for the self-employment bias. Through a two …

This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … long established procedures for dealing with "traditional" RTT bias do not circumvent the additional problem we have …

employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA … on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers-real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

characteristics, foreign workers face higher levels of risk by the same level of wages. The gap is significantly above the level …