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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2016

The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing explanations attribute different weight to wage discrimination and access to human capital. Using new data on local school quality, we find that human capital played a predominant role...

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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The Economic Progress of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1998

country characteristics that lead to high wages at the time of entry also lead to faster wage growth …

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The Determinants of Child Care Workers' Wages and Compensation : Sectoral Differences, Human Capital, Race, Insiders and Outsiders

Mocan, H. Naci - 1997

This paper investigates the determinants of wages and compensation in child care centers for teachers and aides …. Nonprofit status has no across-the-board impact on wages. The extent of the wage premium enjoyed by some nonprofit workers … and zero for aides. An additional year of general education brings about a 5 percent increase in teacher wages, and half …

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Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1997

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a …

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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

Beaudry, Paul - 1997

This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...

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Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper examines the relationship between price growth and skill intensity across 150 manufacturing industries between 1989 and 1995. There are two main findings. First, wage growth and intermediate goods price increases are passed through to final product prices roughly in proportion to...

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The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

Murnane, Richard J. - 1995

larger impact on wages for 24-year-old men and women in 1986 than in 1978. For women, the increase in the return to cognitive …. We also show that high school seniors' mastery of basic cognitive skills had a much smaller impact on wages two years … after graduation than on wages six years after graduation …

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The Production of Human Capital and the Lifecycle of Earnings : Variations on a Theme

Mincer, Jacob - 1994

largely attributable to human capital investments? Section 3 tests the proposition that over the working age capacity wages (i ….e. wages before netting out investment) decline before observed wages do. Implied timing of labor supply provides the test. The …

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Why Do Wage Profiles Slope Upwards? Tests of the General Human Capital Model

Neumark, David - 1994

This paper tests some empirical implications of the general human capital model's explanation of rising wage profiles. At the individual level, the model implies that there will be a negative relationship between the initial wage level and wage growth of young, inexperienced workers. At the...

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