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Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
Blackburn, McKinley L.; Neumark, David - 1992
One competitive-market explanation of interindustry wage differentials that is not challenged by the persistence of these differentials is that they are due to differences across workers in unobserved ability or quality. In contrast, this paper explores the unobserved ability hypothesis by using...
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Breast cancer survival, work, and earnings
Bradley, Cathy J.; Bednarek, Heather; Neumark, David - 2001
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Living Wages : Protection for or Protection from Low-Wage Workers?
Neumark, David - 2004
that living wage laws act to maintain or increase rents among unionized municipal workers. By raising the wages that city … wages for their members. The evidence presented here, from an analysis of CPS data for 1996-2000, indicates that the wages …
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Race, social justice & cities
Boustan, Leah Platt (ed.); Neumark, David (ed.);  … - 2024
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Assessing state business climate indexes
Neumark, David; Kolko, Jed; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar - In: FRBSF Economic Letter (2012)
Indexes that rank state business climates figure prominently in debates about economic policy. But empirical evidence is rarely examined on which index factors actually correlate with economic growth. A statistical analysis suggests that state business climate indexes that focus on taxes and...
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Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …. These concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond … generating continuing or renewed interest are hiring credits, higher (sometimes much higher) minimum wages, and a more …
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Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2013
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Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - In: Journal of urban economics 79 (2014), pp. 39-58
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …. These concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond … generating continuing or renewed interest are hiring credits, higher (sometimes much higher) minimum wages, and a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388328
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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
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