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Selection, Investment, and Women'S Relative Wages Since 1975

Mulligan, Casey B.; Rubinstein, Yona - 2021

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …

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The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

Mulligan, Casey B.; Rubinstein, Yona - 2021

Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In …

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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Co-Movement

Eusepi, Stefano - 2010

Standard real-business-cycle models must rely on total factor productivity (TFP) shocks to explain the observed co-movement between consumption, investment and hours worked. This paper shows that a neoclassical model consistent with observed heterogeneity in labor supply and consumption, can...

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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

Bertrand, Marianne - 2013

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

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Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation : External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect

Bisbee, James - 2015

We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...

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Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap : Incentives and Expectations

Albanesi, Stefania - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …

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Job Market Signaling Through Occupational Licensing

Blair, Peter - 2018

presence of occupational licensing, we find evidence that firms rely less on observable characteristics such as race and gender …

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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan

Ono, Hiroshi; Rebick, Marcus E. - 2021

We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater...

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Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes

Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2021

In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of alcohol taxes on employment, hours of work per week, and wages. These are reduced form estimates derived from a structural model linking alcohol use to labor market outcomes. The reduced form estimates are meaningful in two ways: first, they...

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The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates

Kahn, Shalumit; Lang, Kevin - 2021

Almost all labor supply models are estimated under the assumption that workers are free to choose their hours. However, theory, casual empiricism and survey data suggest that many workers are not free to vary the hours within a job. Consequently, labor supply estimates based on actual hours of...

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