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We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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give immigrants an advantage in terms occupational or wage assimilation (relative to their native counterparts) …
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We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...
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positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities …
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wage outcomes. Wage and employment status equations are estimated jointly, allowing employment status to be endogenous …Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and …
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...
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gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in participation by women, the wage gender gap, and educational …
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