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Place of work and place of residence : informal hiring networks and labor market outcomes
Bayer, Patrick J.; Ross, Stephen L.; Topa, Giorgio - 2005
labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the …) and when at least one individual is well attached to the labor market. These findings are robust across various … availability of neighborhood referrals has a significant impact on a wide range of labor market outcomes including employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809184
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Employment, inequality and the UK national minimum wage over the medium-term
Dolton, Peter J.; Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara; Wadsworth, … - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155048
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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage Over the Medium-Term
Dolton, Peter - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136496
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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects on duration outcomes under censoring, selection, and noncompliance
Blanco, German; Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos; … - 2018
We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp bounds for average and quantile treatment effects addressing three pervasive problems simultaneously:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163400
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Social Effects, Household Time Allocation, and the Decline in Union Formation
Sevilla Sanz, Almudena - 2005
labor and diminish the gains to forming a union. Thus, women living in less-egalitarian countries have, ceteris paribus, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063392
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The effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive and noncognitive development
Borra, Cristina; Iacovou, Maria; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2012
This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children's cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly associated with higher cognitive test scores, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558933
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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality : assessing the role of reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523529
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Estimating the external returns to education : evidence from China
Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan; Wang, Liming - 2015
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288538
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Estimating the external returns to education : evidence from China
Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan - 2012
Good understanding on the human capital externalities is important for both policy makers and social science researchers. Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social returns to education may exceed the private returns. In this paper, using the longitudinal data from China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733074
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Understanding social interactions : evidence from the classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235528