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Title
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JEL Class.
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1927
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Tracy
L.
Regan
Galen
Burghardt
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels
This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (4), 721-738)
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J24, J31, J22
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1926
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Anabela
Carneiro
Pedro
Portugal
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Wages and the Risk of Displacement
In this paper a simultaneous-equations model of firm closing and wage determination is developed in order to analyse how wages adjust to unfavorable shocks that raise the risk of displacement through ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276)
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J31, J65
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1925
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Eddy
Lee
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145(3), 167-184)
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F02, O1
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1924
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Fernando
A.
Lozano
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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
After declining for most of the century, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 50 hours per week began to increase around 1970. This trend has been especially pronounced ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 311-343)
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J22
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1923
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David
A.
Jaeger
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 45-49)
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C32, D71, D74, H56
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1922
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José
Varejão
Pedro
Portugal
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Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs
In this paper we document the patterns of employment adjustment at the micro-level. We find clear evidence of lumpy adjustment consistent with the presence of non-convexities in the adjustment ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (1), 137-165)
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J23, J63
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1921
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Anne
Daly
Akira
Kawaguchi
Xin
Meng
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries
In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in ...
(revised version published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 165-176)
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J3, J7
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1920
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Tracy
L.
Regan
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions
We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 463 - 499)
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C81, J24, J31
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1919
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Chris
Riddell
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The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991
Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of a very generous unemployment insurance (UI) program on weeks worked. We find ...
(revised version published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (2), 183 - 204)
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J22, J64
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1917
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2005, 30(4), 305-316)
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C6, J15, J16
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