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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Štepán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262350
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The impact of parental education on earnings: new wine in an old bottle?
Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - 2009
We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269209
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2012
the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …, earnings, assets and consumption. We focus on the importance of family labour supply as an insurance mechanism to wage shocks …
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
to seniority are small, and for some education groups are close to zero. The specification here is the same as that used … in Buchinsky, Foug¨re, Kramarz and Tchernis (2002), where the returns to seniority were found to be quite large. This …-mobility country such as the United States, high returns to seniority have a clear incentive effect, and firms are induced to pay the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267591
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Wage growth and job mobility in the early career: Testing a statistical discrimination model of the gender wage gap
Belley, Philippe; Havet, Nathalie; Lacroix, Guy - 2012
links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289893
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007
country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268554
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Sources of earnings instability: estimates from an on-the-job search model of the U.S. labor market
Flabbi, Luca; Leonardi, Marco - 2008
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and … explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples … contribute to the increase in earnings instability even if it is only their joint effect that generates what we observe in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268696