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Beauty and the Labor Market [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Economic Review, 1993
We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian Quality of Life surveys, all of which contain interviewers ...
Hamermesh, Daniel S, Biddle, Jeff E
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Online Labor Markets

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
In recent years, a number of online labor markets have emerged that allow workers from around the world to sell their labor to an equally global pool of buyers. The creators of these markets play the role of labor market intermediary by providing institutional support and remedying informational asymmetries.
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Crime and the Labor Market

SSRN Electronic Journal
The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. This chapter surveys key contributions and developments from labor economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education ...
Hjalmarsson, Randi   +2 more
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"Overeducation" in the Labor Market

Journal of Labor Economics, 1991
This article examines the reasons for the observed discrepancy between workers' actual and required levels of schooling and the resulting differences in returns to schooling, "Overeducated" workers are found to be younger and to have lower amounts of on-the-job training than workers with the required level of schooling.
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Taxes and the labor market [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
We estimate the effect of exogenous changes in taxes on the US unemployment rate and on several other labor market variables. Our estimates are based on a revised version of the Romer and Romer (2010) narrative record of exogenous tax innovations, with the additional benefit of distinguishing between capital income and labor income taxes. We first show
Monacelli, Tommaso   +2 more
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On Equilibrium in Labor Markets

Journal of Political Economy, 1970
In a recent issue of this Journal Lucas and Rapping (1969b) present some original and interesting views on the nature of equilibrium in labor markets. Unfortunately, in the process they seriously misinterpret some of the post-Keynesian literature, leaving the impression that their departure from generally accepted positions is much less substantial ...
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The Nurse Labor Market

Health Affairs, 1982
The national shortage of nurses, which grew to crisis proportions in many communities in the late 1970s, has subsided. Recent evidence suggests that hospital nurse vacancy and turnover rates have declined significantly since 1979. The recent swift reversal in the availability of nurses, from shortage to waiting lists in some hospitals, has taken many ...
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Local Labor Markets

Journal of Political Economy, 1986
This paper studies the processes of wage and employment dynamics within local labor markets. The theoretical context is a dynamic spatial equilibrium among locales that is supported by incentives to migrate to markets offering the greatest present value of future earnings. Thus costly migration arbitrages geographic wage differences.
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Redistribution with Labor Markets Frictions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
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Carlos E. da Costa   +2 more
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