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Skill Mismatch and the Costs of Job Displacement

Social Science Research Network
We study whether earning losses after job displacement can be attributed to the skill mismatch that arises when workers' human capital is underutilized at the new job.
Ljubica Nedelkoska, Frank Neffke, Simon Wiederhold   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics

Journal of Economic Literature, 2018
Invariably, across a cross-section of countries and time periods, wealth distributions are skewed to the right displaying thick upper tails, that is, large and slowly declining top wealth shares.
J. Benhabib, Alberto Bisin
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Hbcu Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes

Social Science Research Network
Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we find that students initially enrolling in a historically Black college and university (HBCU) are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree and, around age 30, have 5 percent ...
Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith, Andria Smythe   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Long-Run Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women’s employment, earnings, and childbearing.
Martha J. Bailey, Tanya S. Byker, Elena Patel, Shanthi P. Ramnath   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?

Social Science Research Network
Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide ...
Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita M. Glenny, N. Harmon, Jonas Maibom   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility

Social Science Research Network
This paper uses census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of occupations to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into occupations by parental income.
C. Haeck, Jean-William P. Laliberté
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Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories

Social Science Research Network
Workers who enter the labor market during recessions experience lasting earnings losses, but the role of non-pay amenities in either exacerbating or counteracting these losses remains unknown.
Parag Mahajan, Dhiren Patki, Heiko Stüber   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000

, 2016
Rebecca Diamond
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors

, 2010
Marianne Bertrand, C. Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz   +2 more
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods

Games Econ. Behav.
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good.
Kevin Bauer, M. Kosfeld, F. A. Siemens
semanticscholar   +1 more source