W Dickens… - 1985 - nber.org
This paper replicates and extends our earlier analysis of dual market theory. We use a
technique which estimates for each worker a probability of being in the primary sector on the
basis of his characteristics. We use this information to determine the occupational and ...
SG Donald… - The review of Economics and Statistics, 2007 - MIT Press
Abstract We examine inference in panel data when the number of groups is small, as is
typically the case for difference-in-differences estimation and when some variables are fixed
within groups. In this case, standard asymptotics based on the number of groups going to ...
JD Angrist… - The American Economic Review, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Metco) is a desegregation
program that sends students from Boston schools to more affluent suburbs. Metco increases
the number of blacks and reduces test scores in receiving districts. School-level data for ...
K Lang - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Any advanced industrial society is composed of a number of speech communities
with different verbal and nonverbal languages. In particular, in the United States blacks and
whites and men and women have sharply differing methods of speaking and listening. ...
WT Dickens… - The American Economic Review, 1988 - JSTOR
According to dual labor market theory, the labor market can be usefully described as
consisting of two sectors: a high-wage (primary) sector with good working conditions, stable
employment, and substantial returns to human capital variables such as education and ...
W Dickens, LF Katz, K Lang… - 1989 - nber.org
This paper offers some observations on employee crime, economic theories of crime, limits
on bonding, and the efficiency wage hypothesis. We demonstrate that the simplest economic
theories of crime predict that profit-maximizing firms should follow strategies of minimal ...
K Lang… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Under the educational sorting hypothesis a state compulsory school attendance law
will increase the educational attainment of high-ability workers who are not directly affected
by the law. Under the human capital hypothesis such laws affect only those individuals ...
S Kahn… - 1988 - nber.org
Almost all labor supply models are estimated under the assumption that workers are free to
choose their hours. However, theory, casual empiricism and survey data suggest that many
workers are not free to vary the hours within a job. Consequently, labor supply estimates ...
JB De Long… - Journal of Political Economy, 1992 - JSTOR
We develop an estimator that allows us to calculate an upper bound to the fraction of
unrejected null hypotheses tested in economics journal articles that are in fact true. Our point
estimate is that none of the unrejected nulls in our sample is true. We reject the hypothesis ...
WT Dickens… - 1992 - nber.org
We argue that Labor Market Segmentation theory is a good alternative to standard views of
the labor market. Since it is sometimes argued that labor market segmentation theory is
untestable, we first consider the uses of theory and the attributes of a good theory. We ...
K Lang… - Journal of Human Resources, 2001 - JSTOR
It is widely recognized that children who grow up without a biological parent do worse, on
average, than other children. However, because having a single parent is highly correlated
with many other socioeconomic disadvantages, the negative outcomes might be caused ...
JD Angrist… - 2002 - nber.org
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper,
we study the impact of Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly
black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent ...
K Lang - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract It is costly for firms' offers to workers to be turned down both because firms must
make additional offers and making offers is costly and because capital is underused or
unused. Provided that workers apply to at least two firms for jobs, there will be wage ...
S Kahn… - International Economic Review, 1988 - JSTOR
When a product or job is not homogeneous but instead embodies several different
characteristics, it is difficult to use price information about the product to learn anything about
the structure of the supply and demand for the embodied characteristics. S. Rosen (1974) ...
E Berman, K Lang… - Labour Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We examine how language acquisition affects immigrant earnings growth for Soviet
immigrants to Israel. Using retrospective information on linguistic proficiency to control for
heterogeneous ability, we find that language complements high-skill occupations. ...
K Lang… - 1987 - nber.org
Neoclassical theory has been misrepresented in the segmented economy literature.
Consequently, most tests of" structural" vs." neoclassical" models are inadequate. Moreover,
segmented economy theorists have concentrated on the least significant departures of ...
K Lang… - Journal of Public Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
Recent research casts doubt on the view that minimum-wage laws reduce employment. We
show that in a simple model of bilateral search with heterogeneous workers, a minimum-
wage law increases employment. However, the increased competition from higher ...
M Galizzi… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1998 - JSTOR
Using Italian Social Security records for male workers from a sample of firms in Turin from
1981 to 1983, we show that conditional on the worker's own wage the average wage in the
establishment for similar workers is negatively related to quits. We also find that this ...
D Bell Jr… - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 1985 - jrc.sagepub.com
Abstract This article presents the analysis of intake dispositions for a sample of 533 juvenile
suspects. By using multinomial logit analysis, we found strong statistical confirmation of the
relevance of prior record and demeanor of youth during intake for the selection of intake ...
SB Kahn… - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
Over half of workers are dissatisfied with the number of hours they work, and of these the
vast majority desire more rather than fewer hours. Using the Canadian Survey of Work
Reduction, we examine two potential explanations for hours constraints--long-term ...
KJ Lang - Proc. of 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School, 1988 - ci.nii.ac.jp
S Kahn… - Journal of Human resources, 1992 - JSTOR
Lifetime contracts imply that at a given time, wages and value of marginal product (VMP) will
diverge. The contract will specify hours as well as wages, since firms will desire to prevent
workers from working more when the wage is greater than VMP and from working less ...
K Lang - 1992 - nber.org
If education increases human capital, subsidizing education can generate economic growth
and combat poverty. Estimates of its return suggest that education is a good social
investment. In sorting models, the return reflects in part the information about productivity ...
K Lang… - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
We model partnerships as mutual insurance associations in which individuals band together
to insure themselves against idiosyncratic shocks to their human capital. As with most forms
of insurance, this generates a tradeoff between efficiency and risk sharing. Since partners ...
K Lang… - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
We develop a symmetric-information auction model of multiproject contracting with costly
bidding and increasing marginal performance costs. When there are many potential
contractors or only one job, there is a zero-expected-profit symmetric equilibrium in mixed ...
K Lang… - 2006 - nber.org
We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that
explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability. Our
model explains the difference between blacks and whites in the relations between ...
K Lang… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper examines nonsequential search when jobs vary with respect to nonpecuniary
characteristics. In the presence of frictions in the labor market, the equilibrium job distribution
need not show evidence of compensating wage differentials. The model also generates ...
K Lang - 2007 - books.google.com
Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven
assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to
assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist ...
A Ashcraft… - 2006 - nber.org
We examine the effect of teenage childbearing on the adult outcomes of a sample of women
who gave birth, miscarried or had an abortion as teenagers. If miscarriages are
(conditionally) random, then if all miscarriages occur before teenagers can obtain ...
K Lang, M Manove… - The American economic review, 2005 - JSTOR
Economic theory suggests that wage discrimination against groups of workers is unlikely to
persist in a competitive economy, because, in the presence of such discrimination, profits
can be made by hiring members of the discriminated-against groups. Consequently, in ...
Few issues in the area of immigration to the United States generate as much concern and
confusion as the influx of illegal aliens. Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants vary
widely. Some observers, noting the explosive growth of Border Patrol apprehensions of ...
K Lang… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986 - JSTOR
A simple econometric model of investment in schooling is developed and estimated. The
measure of individual discount rates implicit in their educational investment decisions
suggests no difference between individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds. ...
K Lang… - Economic Inquiry, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Efficiency wage models, in which firms find it profitable to pay wages above workers'
reservation wages, provide a promising explanation for unemployment and interindustry
wage differentials. One criticism of such models is they imply firms should sell jobs by ...
[CITATION] Unemployment and the structure of labor markets
K Lang… - 1987 - Basil Blackwell
W Dickens… - 1986 - nber.org
Studies of the earnings of union workers have consistently shown that they earn
considerably more than nonunion workers. This paper considers whether part of this
observed union/nonunion differential is due to unions organizing high paying primary ...
K Lang - Economic Inquiry, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
By increasing the expected wage in low skill jobs, a minimum wage law can reduce the
incentive for low skill workers to imitate high skill workers in the signalling process. The gain
from reduced investment in the signal can more than offset the loss from unemployment ...
K Lang… - The Economic Journal, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Perfect-information, Rubinstein-style bargaining models are used to explore questions about
multiple-issue bargaining–Is it ever sensible to offer on only a subset of the issues being
bargained? What is the effect of limiting offers so that they must cover all issues? We ...
S Kahn… - The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 1996 - JSTOR
Surveys in the United States and Canada reveal that approximately half of all workers would
like to work a different number of hours per week if they could continue to receive their usual
hourly wage. Of these about two-thirds would like to work more hours and one-third would ...
K Lang… - Working time in comparative perspective, 2001 - books.google.com
In response to persistent unemployment, particularly in Europe, there have been calls to
reduce the length of the workweek in order to share the available work more equally.
Implicitly, advocates of these mandated hours reductions believe that the demand for ...
[CITATION] Where have all the Good Jobs Gone
WT Dickens… - Deindustrialization and Labor Market Segmentation,” In …, 1987
[CITATION] Why it matters what we trade: A case for active policy
WT Dickens… - The Dynamics of Trade and Employment. Cambridge, …, 1988
WT Dickens… - The Journal of Development Studies, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Sri Lanka has a significant youth unemployment problem. Past authors have viewed
unemployment as particularly high among the more educated, but once we control for sex,
sector and age the positive relation between education and unemployment disappears for ...
K Lang… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of Proposition 2 1 2 on revenues and housing prices in
Massachusetts. Communities that were initially constrained by the law saw large increases
in state aid and the use of fees. We use these initial constraints as instruments for changes ...
S Lemos, R Rigobon… - Economia, 2004 - JSTOR
The aim of minimum wage increases is to change the shape of the wage distribution without
destroying jobs. While it is well estab lished in the international literature that the minimum
wage com presses the wage distribution, there is no consensus on the direction and size ...
K Lang… - 1992 - nber.org
This paper briefly reviews the empirical evidence on labor market segmentation and
presents some new results on the similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different
countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be understood in a ...
K Lang - 1993 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
I reconsider various methods for correcting for bias in estimates of the returns to schooling. I
argue that the literature on ability bias has ignored complications implicit in theoretical
formulations of the choice of human capital. In particular, such models imply that adding ...
K Lang - Journal of Labor Economics, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
Prior to trade liberalization in the l980s, New Zealand heavily protected low-wage industries.
Consequently, trade liberalization was desirable from the perspective of both traditional and
new trade theories. While liberalization decreased employment in protected industries ...
K Lang - Journal of Public Economics, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract Lazear argues that hours constraints and mandatory retirement form part of an
efficient contract which inhibits worker shirking. He argues that initially workers earn less
than their VMP and must work more than they want while later they earn more than their ...
W Dickens, LF Katz… - 1986 - nber.org
Efficiency wage models have been criticized because worker malfeasance can be
prevented in a pareto efficient manner by requiring workers to post a bond which they lose if
they are caught cheating. However, since it is costly to monitor workers and costless to ...
R Barua… - 2009 - nber.org
Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been
raising the minimum school entry age, but existing studies show mixed results regarding the
effects of entry age. These studies may be severely biased because they violate the ...
K Lang… - 1993 - nber.org
Since applying for jobs is costly, workers prefer applying where their employment probability
is high and, therefore, to jobs attracting fewer higher quality applicants. Since creating
vacancies is expensive, firms create more vacancies when job-seeking is high. Our model ...
K Lang, M Manove… - 1999 - cemfi.es
Abstract: We offer an explanation of racial discrimination in labor markets in which wage
rates are posted along with job openings. If an employer with a job vacancy and a posted
wage receives a pool of qualified applicants without observable differences in productivity, ...
K Lang… - 2011 - nber.org
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can
generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random
or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no existing model ...
[CITATION] VLabour market structure, wages and unemployment
K Lang, JS Leonard… - V in Kevin Lang and Jonathan S, 1987
[CITATION] Why Do Firms Monitor Workers
WT Dickens, LF Katz, K Lang… - … in the Theory and Measurement of …, 1990
[CITATION] Hours constraints: theory, evidence and policy implications
K Lang, S Kahn… - 1996
S Kahn… - 1987 - nber.org
Most models of implicit lifetime contracts imply that at any particular point in time, workers'
wages and value of marginal product (VMP) will diverge. As a result, the contract will have to
specify hours as well as wages, since firms will desire to prevent workers from working ...
K Lang… - 2006 - nber.org
We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return
to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English
knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language ...
D Goel… - 2009 - nber.org
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should
raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those
in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the ...
W Dickens… - 1987 - nber.org
We subject our dual labor market model to a goodness of test fit and compare the results
with those obtained using a single equation model with a complex error structure. The dual
labor market does an excellent job of predicting the wage distribution except for failing to ...
[CITATION] Reinterpreting the Returns to Seniority
K Lang - Boston University, 1988
K Lang… - Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2003 - JSTOR
We present models of labor-market discrimination in which identical employers choose
among job applicants according to a continuous characteristic such as skin color or worker
height. The characteristic in question is assumed to be unrelated to worker productivity. ...
K Lang - New Zealand Institute of Economic Research …, 1989 - getcited.org
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K Lang - International journal of the sociology of language, 1993 - cat.inist.fr
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[CITATION] Abbadingo one: Dfa learning competition
KJ Lang, BA Pearlmutter… - 1997
WT Dickens… - 1991 - nber.org
Sri Lanka has a significant chronic unemployment problem. Depending on time period and
the definition of unemployment it varies from the low teens to over twenty percent. Nearly all
of this unemployment is concentrated among young people who are looking for their first ...
K Lang… - Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 1998 - JSTOR
Nous examinons deux mystères jumeaux--la forte corrélation entre les taux de chômage aux
États-Unis et au Canada, ainsi que l'émergence d'un écart entre ces taux. Nous montrons
que la relation apparemment étroite entre les taux de chômage et l'émergence d'un écart ...
K Lang - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: One of the potential strengths of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act enacted in
2002 is that the law requires the production of an enormous amount of data, particularly from
tests, which, if used properly, might help us improve education. As an economist and as ...
[CITATION] The Changing Structure of the Female Labor Market: 1976-1984
R Friedberg, K Lang… - IRRA 41st Annual Proceedings, 1988
[CITATION] Economic sociology and social economics: where are we now?
G Farkas, K Lang… - Industries, Firms and Jobs, Sociological and …, 1994
D Goel… - CLSRN Working Papers, 2009 - ideas.repec.org
We show that among workers whose network is weaker than formal (nonnetwork) channels,
those finding a job through the network should have higher wages than those finding a job
through formal channels. Moreover, this wage differential is decreasing in network ...
K Lang - Journal of Labor Research, 1984 - Springer
Abstract Wages generally rise more slowly with experience in union than in nonunion
settings. It has been argued that the lower slope of the earnings profiles reflects the
preferences of the median worker. It is shown in this paper that the median worker model ( ...
[CITATION] The implementation of Oaklisp
BA Pearlmutter… - Topics in Advanced Language …, 1991 - MIT Press
[CITATION] Persistent wage distribution and involuntary unemployment
K Lang - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991
S Kahn, K Lang… - … A Journal of Economy and Society, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
THE PREVAILING VIEW IN THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LITERATURE is that the
turnover rate of national trade union leaders is low and, moreover, that when it occurs,
turnover generally results froin random events (such as voluntary retirement or death) ...
... 35 James Rebitzer Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence 40 William
T. Dickens and Kevin Lang Supervision and High Wages as Competing Incentives: A Basis for
Labor Segmentation Theory 43 Robert W. Drago and Richard Perlman ...
[CITATION] Panel: Modelling How Search-Matching Technologies Affect Labor Markets
K Lang - talk given to IRPP and CERF conference on Creating …, 2000
K Lang - 1982 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 3157232. Human capital, screening and minimum wages / (1982). Lang,
Kevin. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1982..
Supervised by Henry S. Farber.. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-107 ...
[CITATION] The Incidence of the Payroll Tax: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination
K Lang - 2003 - Working paper, Boston University
[CITATION] Labour market segmentation, wage dispersion and unemployment
WT Dickens… - NBER Working Paper, 1992
[CITATION] Price. 1998. Results of the Abbadingo One DFA Learning Competition and New Evidence Driven State Merging Algorithm
KJ Lang, BA Pearlmutter… - ICGI'98: The 4th International Colloquium on …
[CITATION] VThe Return to English in a Non'English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
K Lang… - 2006 - V NBER Working Paper 12464, …
[CITATION] Reinterpret the return to seniority
K Lang - Boston University, 1987
A Ashcraft… - Unpublished manscript, 2010 - sws1.bu.edu
Abstract We examine the effect of teenage childbearing on the adult outcomes of a sample
of women who gave birth, miscarried or had an abortion as teenagers. Because teens who
abort are more favorably selected than the set of teens who become pregnant, teens who ...
[CITATION] How important are classroom peer effects?
JD Angrist… - 2002
[CITATION] received his PhD in computer science in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University, where his contributions were in programming language design (Oaklisp) …
K Lang - 1990 - Since
[CITATION] Does the Human Capital
K Lang - 1992 - National Bureau of Economic …
K Lang - 1995 - epionline.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The desirability of raising the minimum wage has long revolved
around just one question: the effect of higher minimum wages on the overall level of
employment. This report adds an important new dimension to that debate by showing that ...
[CITATION] Estimating the Effects of School Expenditure on Student Achievement: An Instrumental Variable Approach
K Lang… - 1997 - Mimeo, Boston University
[CITATION] Explaining Variation in Estimated Returns to Education across Time and Place
K Lang - 1993 - mimeo, Department of Economics, …
[CITATION] Property Taxes and Property Values: Evidence from Proposition
L Kevin… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2004
SK Ambasht, BF Sweeney, KA Lang… - The American Journal …, 2000 - nature.com
The American Journal of Gastroenterology is published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) on
behalf of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). Ranked the #1 clinical journal covering
gastroenterology and hepatology*, The American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG) ...
R Barua… - 2008 - mysmu.edu
Abstract We use instrumental variable estimation strategy to estimate the effect of a one year
delay in entering kindergarten on academic outcomes of children. Using data from the
Child&NLSY, we present evidence that older entrants perform better in test scores ...
K Lang - 2003 - nber.org
Under the standard competitive model, a tax change affecting workers with highly inelastic
labor supply, will lower earnings by the entire nominal employer share of the tax increase. If
wages play a motivational role but the market still clears, the range of possible outcomes ...
K Lang… - Journal of Public Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract In Becker's model, punishment is not constrained by a normative 'socially
acceptable'level. Carr-Hill and Stern show that the justice system requires a concept of
'appropriate'punishment which places either an upper bound on punishment or a cost of ...
K Lang… - 2007 - nber.org
We develop a model in which firms hire heterogeneous workers but must offer all workers
insurance benefits under similar terms. In equilibrium, some firms offer free health insurance,
some require an employee premium payment and some do not offer insurance. Making ...
[CITATION] Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?
T Dickens William, LF Katz… - NBER Working Paper Series, 1986
D Goel… - 2008 - isid.ac.in
Abstract We show that among workers whose network is weaker than formal (non&network)
channels, those finding a job through the network should have higher wages than those
finding a job through formal channels. Moreover, this wage differential is decreasing in ...
K Lang… - 2011 - sites.google.com
* Kevin Lang is a Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. Ana
Nuevo-Chiquero is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Economics at Boston University. This
paper was written in part while Lang was a visiting fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto ...
K Lang… - 2011 - ideas.repec.org
We analyze a firm's job-assignment and worker-monitoring decisions when workers face
occasional crises. Firms prefer to assign good workers to a difficult task and to not employ
bad workers. Firms observe failures but only observe successfully resolved crises if they ...
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