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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

fair rewards for their skills and so they may invest less in skill formation. If this is the case, discrimination may still …

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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : A Study of South Carolina

Heckman, James J. - 1989

This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...

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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

Heckman, James J. - 2003

The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...

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The Race Between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2018

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper formulates and estimates an open-economy overlapping generation general-equilibrium model of endogenous heterogeneous human capital in the form of schooling and on-the-job training. Physical capital accumulation is also analyzed. We use the model to explain rising wage inequality in...

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Explaining Rising Wage Inequality : Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

Heckman, James J. - 1998

This paper develops and estimates an overlapping generations general equilibrium model of labor earnings, skill formation and physical capital accumulation with heterogeneous human capital. The model analyzes both schooling choices and post-school on-the-job investment in skills in a framework...

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Borghans, Lex - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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The American High School Graduation Rate : Trends and Levels

Heckman, James J. - 2007

populations and is not solely a consequence of increasing proportions of immigrants and minorities in American society; (e) the …

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Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?

Flinn, Christopher J. - 1982

rate from unemployment to employment exceeds the exit rate from out of the labor force to employment. This evidence is … shown to be consistent with a simple job search model of productive unemployment with log concave wage offer distributions … offer distributions are log concave, the exit rate from unemployment to employment exceeds the exit rate from out of the …

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