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The Returns to Skill in the United States Across the Twentieth Century
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...
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The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
Binder, Ariel - 2019
Over the last half century, U.S. wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for males without a college education. Though wages and...
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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Alon, Titan - 2020
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...
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Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap
Cubas, German - 2019
Using U.S. time diary data we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated work schedules based on the concentration of hours worked during peak hours of the day. A higher degree of coordination is associated with higher wages but also a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with...
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Male Wage Rates and Marital Status
Kenny, Lawrence W. - 2021
Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience, etc. There are several possible explanations of this phenomenon. Recent theoretical developments in the economics of marriage predict that males with higher wage rates have a...
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The Rise of Us Earnings Inequality : Does the Cycle Drive the Trend?
Heathcote, Jonathan; Perri, Fabrizio; Violante, Gianluca - 2022
We document that declining hours worked are the primary driver of widening inequality in the bottom half of the male labor earnings distribution in the United States over the past 52 years. This decline in hours is heavily concentrated in recessions: hours and earnings at the bottom fall sharply...
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Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940
Lee, Chulhee - 2021
This paper examines the labor market status of older males in the era of industrialization, focusing on the question of how the extent of pressure toward retirement varied across different occupations, and how it changed over time. A comparison of hazard of retirement across occupations shows...
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Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility : Results from a Four Data Set Project
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2022
There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the last several decades. There are strong disagreements...
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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
Casella, Alessandra - 2014
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial … total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win … minority of 45 senators would be able to block between 20 and 35 percent of nominees. For most parameter values, the …
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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010
Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...
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