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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G.; Pierret, Charles R. - 2021
, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244892
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G.; Pierret, Charles R. - 2010
, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132896
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Taking Time Use Seriously : Income, Wages and Price Discrimination
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018
The American Time Use Survey 2003-15, the French Enquête Emploi du Temps, 2009-10, and the German Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than ever before. We identify income effects on time use by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907139
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Wage Flexibility and Openness
Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
This paper analyzes the degree of short-run, real wage flexibility in a two-sector economy under floating rates. This is done by deriving optimal wage indexation in a contracting framework. We find that the more closed the economy, the lower the degree of wage indexation. As a result, output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219727
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The Economic Progress of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2021
country characteristics that lead to high wages at the time of entry also lead to faster wage growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233734
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Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987 : Supply and Demand Factors
Katz, Lawrence F.; Murphy, Kevin M. - 2021
A simple supply and demand framework is used to analyze changes in the U.S. wage structure from 1963 to 1987. Rapid secular growth in the demand for more-educated workers, 'more-skilled' workers, and females appears to be the driving force behind observed changes in the wage structure. Measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237022
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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2021
productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239185
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Pay Inequality, Pay Secrecy, and Effort : Theory and Evidence
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter - 2021
We study worker and firm behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages may potentially influence a … worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit …-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. Our laboratory experiments, on the other hand, show that --while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239973
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; Todd, Petra - 2021
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248669
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Male-Female Differences in Wages and Employment : A Specific Human Capital Model
Landes, Elisabeth M. - 2021
financed by employer and employee, on male-female wage and employment differentials. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249256