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Accounting for Wage and Employment Changes in the U.S. From 1968-2000 : A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium, Second Version

Lee, Donghoon - 2006

In this paper, we present a unified treatment of and explanation for the evolution of wages and employment in the U …

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The effects of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and wages : evidence from US longitudinal data

Ciccarelli, Nicola - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 1, pp. 89-127

We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …

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The Effects of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums on Employment and Wages : Evidence from US Longitudinal Data

Ciccarelli, Nicola - 2020

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The relative earnings of young Mexican, Black, and White women

Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 1999

Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 9% less than young White women while young Black women earn 15% less than young White women. Although young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well compared to young Black women. We show that it is crucially...

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Selecting talent : gender differences in participation and success in competitive selection processes

Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2019

We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious graduate fellowship program. All applications are scored remotely by expert reviewers and the highest ranked are invited to an in-person interview. The data show a very large gender...

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Changing Levels or Changing Slopes? The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999

Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2010

Once educational attainment and other observable characteristics have been controlled for, studies show that the gender wage gap among adult full-time workers is about half the size it was in 1980. Using U.S. Census and Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1959 through 1999, the authors...

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Ugly criminals

Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...

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Trends in U.S. wage inequality : revising the revisionists : a replication study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The review of economics and statistics, 2008)

Stephenson, Corinne - In: Journal of comments and replications in economics 3 (2024), pp. 1-26

women. I also find that the composition-adjusted real wages of high school dropouts has caught up with high school graduates …. The combination of these findings is consistent with rising polarization in which employment and wages expand for high …

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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

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States : The Impact of Employers' Prejudice

Flabbi, Luca - 2013

This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...

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