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Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966-2017

Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates the contribution of human capital, measured using both educational attainment and test performance, to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning 1966 through 2017. There are three main findings. First, the magnitude of reductions in the...

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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The Ethnic Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940

Eriksson, Katherine - 2018

We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition...

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A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment

Bulow, Jeremy I. - 1985

unemployment …

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Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment

Lang, Kevin - 1992

similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be … understood in a labor market segmentation framework. Existing models of unemployment in a dual labor market suggest that … unemployment should be concentrated among those who are ultimately employed in high wage jobs. In fact, unemployment seems to be …

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The Trend is the Cycle : Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries

Jaimovich, Nir - 2012

Job polarization refers to the recent shrinking concentration of employment in occupations in the middle of the skill distribution. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions, despite recoveries in aggregate output. We show how these two...

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Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities

Borjas, George J. - 1994

The socioeconomic performance of today's workers depends not only on parental skills, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parent's generation (or ethnic capital). This paper investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence...

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 1991

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...

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Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1997

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a …, technical change, and a productivity slowdown. We derive the consequences for the skilled-to-unskilled wage gap, unemployment …

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Education and Unemployment

Mincer, Jacob - 1991

A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of … Income Dynamics) data on the male labor force1 the reduction of the incidence of unemployment is found to be far more … important than the reduced duration of unemployment in creating the educational differentials in unemployment rates. In turn …

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