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Explaining stagnation in the college wage premium

Bengali, Leila; Valletta, Robert G.; Zhao, Cindy - 2025

After growing substantially during the 1980s through the early 2000s, the college wage premium more recently has been largely unchanged, or stagnant. We extend the canonical production-function model of skill premiums to assess supply and demand contributions to the slowdown in the college wage...

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The Effects of High School Athletic Participation on Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Barron, John M.; Ewing, Bradley T.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2004

We introduce a simple allocation-of-time model to explain the high school athletic participation choice and the implications of this choice for educational and labor market outcomes. Four different factors that could explain athletic participation are identified in the context of this model. A...

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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Schooling and labor market effects of temporary authorization : evidence from DACA

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2016

This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a temporary reprieve from deportation. The analysis relies on a difference-in-differences approach that...

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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to...

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Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Temporary Authorization : Evidence from DACA

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina - 2016

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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021

Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...

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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the … 90-10 log wage inequality. Wage compression was accompanied by rapid nominal wage growth and rising job … tightness became strongly predictive of price increases (price-Phillips curve), real wage growth among low-wage workers (wage …

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Teacher Literacy and Numeracy Skills : International Evidence from PIAAC and All

Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

Gasparini, Leonardo - 2012

It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....

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