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Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
Autor, David; Handel, Michael J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
human capital endowments, occupational assignment, job tasks, and wages. This framework motivates a Roy (1951) model of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036788
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U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
between the wages of high school graduates and school dropouts. I point out that there are several hypotheses, but to date …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095620
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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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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G.; Lange, Fabian; Bharadwaj, Prashant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
changes in the distribution of observable skills affect employment and wages. We also use more standard regression methods to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829509
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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
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real … 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 …
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
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785594
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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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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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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
to lower average employee wages while raising firm profits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196772