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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages, and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated … inequality among these groups but it could have contributed to the decline in wages for the least educated. Instead, support is …
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This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated … inequality among these groups but it could have contributed to the decline in wages for the least educated. Instead, support is …
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