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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

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Import competition from and offshoring to low-income countries : implications for employment and wages at U.S. domestic manufacturers

Kamal, Fariha; Lovely, Mary E. - 2017

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Fiscal decentralisation, the knowledge economy and school teachers' wages in urban China

Long, Yi; Nyland, Chris; Smyth, Russell - 2016

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Labor market effects of U.S. sick pay mandates

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2018

difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to estimate the causal effects of … mandated sick pay on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly affected by …

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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...

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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018

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The production and stock of college graduates for U.S. States

Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015

dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced …

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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market

Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...

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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

Winters, John V. - 2014

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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