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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
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This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
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gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look … experience), estimating comparable earnings equations by gender at each point in time. We consider the effects of sample … labor force participation, hours, and earnings that indicate convergence by gender in worklife patterns, but less …
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findings are consistent with the convergence of gender earning gap has occurred mainly due to women's responses to changing …
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