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People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become … more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are … changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. We particularly focus on how the increased importance …

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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s

Juhn, Chinhui; Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto; Airola, Jim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...

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The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

Mulligan, Casey; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In the 1970's, women were relatively equal (to each other) in terms of their earnings potential, so that nonwage factors may have dominated female labor supply decisions and...

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Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...

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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...

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Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

Oster, Emily; Millett, M. Bryce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are; this has implications for...

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...

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