Nathaniel Baum-Snow,Derek Neal
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
Recent decennial censuses and the American Community Survey (ACS) collect data that permit construction of average hourly wage rates. However, reports concerning usual hours worked during the past year contain errors that create incredible ...
Xuguang Sheng,Jingyun Yang
Xuguang Sheng
We propose an adaptive truncated product method that facilitates the selection of the truncation point among a set of candidates. To efficiently estimate the distribution of the proposed method when the p-values are correlated, we develop a...
Judith K Hellerstein,Melinda Sandler Morrill,Ben Zou
Judith K Hellerstein
We use individual-level data to show that divorce is pro-cyclical on average, a finding robust to the inclusion of a wide range of controls. Pro-cyclical divorce is concentrated among women who married young and/or do not have a college deg...
Pushing on a String: How policy might encourage private doctors to compete with the public sector on the basis of quality [0.03%]
因势利导：如何通过政策激励私人医生以质量为基础与公共部门展开竞争
Stella Quimbo,John W Peabody,Xylee Javier et al.
Stella Quimbo et al.
Results from the Philippine Quality Improvement Demonstration Study show that a policy that expands insurance coverage improves quality of care, as measured by clinical performance vignettes, among public physicians, and induces a spillover...
Making sense of the labor market height premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey [0.03%]
英国住户调查的劳动力市场身高溢价研究
Anne Case,Christina Paxson,Mahnaz Islam
Anne Case
We use data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine the labor market premium in height. Most of the premium is explained by higher average educational attainment and sorting into higher-status occupations and industries by those ...
Internal labor markets and firm-specific determination of earnings in the presence of immigrant workers [0.03%]
移民工人条件下的内部劳动力市场与企业工资决定
J Zweimuller,R Winter-ebmer
J Zweimuller
"In this paper we study earnings determination at the firm level in Austria. We distinguish firms who employ immigrant workers and those who do not. By using a switching regressions model we find that native workers in firms with immigrant ...
Comparative Study
Economics letters. 1995:48:185-91. DOI:10.1016/0165-1765(94)00607-4 1995
C K Yip,J Zhang
C K Yip
A Bigsten
A Bigsten
"It is argued that circular migration [in Africa] should be seen as an optimization problem, where the household allocates its labour resources across activities, including work which requires migration, so as to maximize the joint family u...
The effect of migration on black incomes: evidence from the 1940 census [0.03%]
移民对黑人收入的影响：来自1940年人口普查的证据
R A Margo
R A Margo
"Evidence from the 1940 [U.S.] census reveals that southern-born blacks who left the region prior to 1935 had higher incomes than non-southern born blacks. The income gap between migrants and non-migrants declined with schooling." ...
Externalities in migration [0.03%]
迁移的外部性问题
T Darvish-lecker
T Darvish-lecker
"The paper presents a model which shows that the probability of migrants being mobile after migration depends on the number of previous waves. The model concludes that low order waves provide positive externalities to higher order waves. Th...