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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267328
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The lot of the unemployed: a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268843
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Last hired, first fired? Black-white unemployment and the business cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2008
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273854
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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011
possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278720
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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268976
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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers
Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273737
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search
Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009
analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269565
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Rooms of One?s Own : Gender, Race and Home Ownership as Wealth Accumulation in the United States
Sedo, Stanley A.; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2004
and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262140
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The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262730