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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628327
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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
important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational … wages increased more rapidly while the wages of blacks grew more slowly over these years relative to earlier years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829880
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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
. By 1990, wages had become unequal enough that they dominated nonwage factors, so that nonworking women tended to be the … participation rates -- and show how their measured wages have grown at about the same rate as those of men with advanced degrees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575334
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714068
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614941
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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Ozkan, Serdar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing 10 percent of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271386
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Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China
Whalley, John; Mao, Risheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences … real exchange rate appreciation would likely have pronounced effects on both net employment and wage rates. A 10% RMB … appreciation would likely cause a net employment decline in Chinese manufacturing industries of between 4.1% and 5.3%, and a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359904
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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627128
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana; Yuksel, Mutlu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using Census data show instead that native wages are positively related … likely to generate upward biases in these estimates too. Native wage effects disappear and less-skilled employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830132
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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
I estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109524