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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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, which control for increases in age and education of the population, suggest that relative to 1979 the economy has lost about …
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The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...
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.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the same period, the share of black workers with less than a high school degree … increases in education and work experience will increase workers' productivity and translate into higher compensation. But, the …
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rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …
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, cohabitation and marriage, parenthood and union dissolution. Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) is used to control for … confounding effects of other relevant covariates (age, gender, education, economic activity and stratification, urbanity …
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relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …
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supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …
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