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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

Card, David E.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings data from the 1980 Census, we find that men who were...

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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …

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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986

Davis, Stephen J. - 2010

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …

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The Return of the Wage Phillips Curve

Galí, Jordi - 2010

The standard New Keynesian model with staggered wage setting is shown to imply a simple dynamic relation between wage inflation and unemployment. Under some assumptions, that relation takes a form similar to that found in empirical applications-starting with the original Phillips (1958)...

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Sensitivity to Missing Data Assumptions : Theory and an Evaluation of the U.S. Wage Structure

Kline, Patrick - 2010

This paper develops methods for assessing the sensitivity of empirical conclusions regarding conditional distributions to departures from the missing at random (MAR) assumption. We index the degree of non-ignorable selection governing the missingness process by the maximal Kolmogorov-Smirnov...

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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury B. - 2013

Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....

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Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss

Davis, Steven J. - 2014

We develop new evidence on the cumulative earnings losses associated with job displacement, drawing on longitudinal Social Security records for U.S. workers from 1974 to 2008. In present value terms, men lose an average of 1.4 years of pre-displacement earnings if displaced in mass-layoff events...

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …

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When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times

Cutler, David M. - 2014

literature documenting that cohorts graduating in bad times have lower wages and poorer health for many years after graduation …

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