discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …

sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … affected an individual's place in the earnings distribution. Our basic tack is to follow individuals' positions in the income … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

This paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, and fertility differentials are positively correlated …

skills, the assignment of skills to tasks, and the evolution of wages. …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological …

-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the … contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …

find that ownership type is highly correlated with characteristics of both workers (education, experience, gender, and … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …