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The gender gap reloaded : is school quality linked to labor market performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros (contributor);  … - 2005
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the importance of school quality indicators in predicting future labor market performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280749
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Return to training and establishment size : a reexamination of the size-wage puzzle
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
The paper reexamines the employer size-wage puzzle using NLSY79 data. The empirical results show that even for those who never receive any training from their employers, size-wage premium still exists and is quantitatively important. Wage increases associated with receiving on-the-job training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832078
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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - 2009
-used pooling decomposition systematically overstates the contribution of observable characteristics to mean outcome differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832324
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the … payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect …. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed. -- Immigrants ; schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
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Decomposing the education wage gap : everything but the kitchen sink
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Shiferaw, Menbere - 2010
high school and college graduates by providing a comprehensive, multidimensional decomposition of wages across both time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664611
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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544
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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources of wage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. We address this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530289
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335240
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Selection, heterogeneity and the gender wage gap
Machado, Cecilia - 2012
Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female non-participation and because selection could be different in different parts of the labor market. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665431