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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
Borghans, Lex - 2010
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...
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Adolescent Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Correlates of Adult Health
Kaestner, Robert - 2009
While it is widely acknowledged that the family and childhood environments affect adult well being, why they matter is still an area of significant debate. Previous research concerned with this issue has focused on the influence of family income, family structure, and cognitive ability. Much of...
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The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2010
This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...
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Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life
DeLeire, Thomas - 2008
Wage-hedonics is used to recover the value of a statistical life by exploiting the fact that workers choosing riskier occupations will be compensated with a higher wage. However, Roy (1951) suggests that observed wage distributions will be distorted if individuals select into jobs according to...
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Job Market Signaling Through Occupational Licensing
Blair, Peter - 2018
We show that an occupational license serves as a job market signal, similar to education in the Spence model. In the presence of occupational licensing, we find evidence that firms rely less on observable characteristics such as race and gender in determining employee wages. As a result,...
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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one … occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation … based on the discrepancy between the portfolio of skills required by an occupation and the portfolio of abilities possessed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019128
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Alternative Measures of Offshorability : A Survey Approach
Blinder, Alan S. - 2009
This paper reports on a household survey specially designed to measure what we call the "offshorability" of jobs, defined as the ability to perform the work duties from abroad. We develop multiple measures of offshorability, using both self-reporting and professional coders. All the measures...
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Meritocracy in America : An Examination of Wages within and Across Occupations
Cawley, John; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2021
claim for wages conditional on occupation using a simultaneous model of occupation choice and wage determination. Our …
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Occupational Skill Premia Around the World : New Data, Patterns and Drivers
Kunst, David; Freeman, Richard B.; Oostendorp, RH - 2021
Firms hire workers to undertake tasks and activities associated with particular occupations, which makes occupations a fundamental unit in economic analyses of the labor market. Using a unique dataset on pay in identically defined occupations in developing and advanced countries, we find that in...
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Wages Around the World : Pay Across Occupations and Countries
Freeman, Richard B.; Oostendorp, Remco - 2021
the same occupation vary greatly across countries measured by common currency exchange rates and measured by purchasing …
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