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highly convex, even after conditioning on unobserved and observed skills. Skill heterogeneity is also found to be over …
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We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural estimates to perform counterfactual experiments. We show that the estimates of the dynamic...
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of schooling and experience and heteroskedasticity (after conditioning on unobserved skills). The model rejects all … conditioning on unobserved and observed skills. Skill heterogeneity is also found to be over-estimated when non-linearity is …
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and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown types. Overall, labor market skills (as opposed to taste for …
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Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …-to-job flows reallocate workers from low productivity to high productivity firms and often this pattern is tested assuming that … employment size, wage or productivity show different responses of employment growth rates to business cycles. The relationship …
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variables as determinants for job satisfaction. Findings - The empirical findings indicate that wages and stability are major …
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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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child’s second year of life and possibly also on wages. …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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