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Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …
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Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance
De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2020
The extent to which households can self-insure and the government can help them to do so depends on the wage risk that they face and their family structure. We study wage risk in the UK and show that the persistence and riskiness of wages depends on one's age and position in the wage...
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Gender wage disparities among the highly educated
Black, Dan A.; Haviland, Amelia M.; Sanders, Seth; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 43 (2008) 3, pp. 630-659
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The gender wage gap among young adults in the United States : the importance of money versus people
Fortin, Nicole Marie - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 43 (2008) 4, pp. 884-918
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Native internal migration and the labor market impact of immigration
Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 41 (2006) 2, pp. 221-258
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Do new male and female college graduates receive unequal pay?
McDonald, Judith Ann; Thornton, Robert J. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 42 (2007) 1, pp. 32-48
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Two sides of the same coin : U.S. "residual" inequality and the gender gap
Bacolod, Marigee P.; Blum, Bernardo Soares - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 45 (2010) 1, pp. 197-242
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957101
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From dark to light : skin color and wages among African-Americans
Goldsmith, Arthur H.; Hamilton, Darrick; Darity, … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 42 (2007) 4, pp. 701-738
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The incidence and wage consequences of home-based work in the United States, 1980 – 2000
Oettinger, Gerald S. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 46 (2011) 2, pp. 237-260
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Speech patterns and racial wage inequality
Grogger, Jeff - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 46 (2011) 1, pp. 1-25
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