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The effects of government policies on human capital investment, unemployment and earnings inequality
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - In: Arbeitsmärkte in den USA und Deutschland : Drittes …, (pp. 305-339). 1998
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The impact of immigrant dynasties on wage inequality
Ben-Gad, Michael - 2006
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Educational attainment and the changing US wage structure : dynamic implications on young individuals' choices
Buchinsky, Moshe; Leslie, Phillip - In: Journal of labor economics 28 (2010) 3, pp. 541-594
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Skill-biased technical change, educational choice, and labor market polarization: the U.S. versus Europe
Okazawa, Ryosuke - In: Journal of economic inequality 11 (2013) 3, pp. 321-342
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Technology and the labor market
Mincer, Jacob - In: Review of Economics of the Household 1 (2003) 4, pp. 249-272
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the … inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that …
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A comparison of the human capital and signaling models : the case of the self-employed and the increase in the schooling premium in the 1980's
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
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Fair wages and human capital accumulation in a global economy
Kreickemeier, Udo - 2004
the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium … by lower wage differentials as well as higher unemployment. Allowing for endogenous skill formation in both countries …
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Three essays on skill premium, college choice, and investment-specific technological change
He, Hui - 2007
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