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Moretti, Enrico - 2010

the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this …

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Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S

Fernández‐Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis; … - 2022

We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in … decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working hours and estimating a nonseparable model of wages. We decompose … changes in the wage distribution into composition, structural and selection effects.Composition effects have increased wages …

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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Smith, James P. - 2010

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were...

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Sorting in the Labor Market:Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sortinto jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We presentevidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whetherworkers who are...

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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010

Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual models, including collective models. This paper discusses another alternative: independent individual...

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Behavioural Labour Economics : Advances and Future Directions

Dohmen, Thomas - 2014

In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are based on restrictive assumptions, which confine the nature of human motivation. Although Adam Smith,...

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Labour Supply and Childcare : Allowing Both Parents to Choose

Mumford, Karen - 2019

We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for two parent families in Australia, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. Our main contribution is to consider the labour supply decisions of both parents and their choice of childcare...

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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence Along the Wage Distribution

Matano, Alessia - 2014

This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...

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Testing Bounded Rationality againstFull Rationality in Job Changing Behavior

Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

of job change are future real wages and expected job quality... …

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