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Early-career work experience and gender wage differentials

A Light… - Journal of labor economics, 1995 - JSTOR
We estimate a wage model that includes an array of variables measuring the fraction of time
worked during each year of the career. This array fully characterizes past employment
experience, regardless of how sporadic it has been. Our model yields substantially higher ...
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Interpreting panel data on job tenure

JN Brown… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1992 - JSTOR
Tenure responses in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National
Longitudinal Surveys are often inconsistent with calendar time. These inconsistencies pose
special problems in the PSID because job changes cannot be identified directly, so ...
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Determinants of college completion: school quality or student ability?

A Light… - Journal of Human Resources, 2000 - JSTOR
We investigate whether the" match" between student ability and college quality is an
important determinant of college graduation rates. We jointly estimate a multinomial probit
model of college attendance decisions in which the alternatives are no college and ...
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Job change patterns and the wages of young men

A Light… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998 - JSTOR
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to distinguish
empirically between mover-stayer," search good," and" experience good" models of job
mobility. We estimate wage models in which the pattern of overall job mobility affects both ...
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Panel estimates of male and female job turnover behavior: can female nonquitters be identified?

A Light… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1992 - JSTOR
Using National Longitudinal Survey data, we estimate proportional hazard models in order
to learn whether it is more difficult for employers to identify female nonquitters than male
nonquitters. We find that women may be a higher risk than men in the overall sample ...
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In-school work experience and the returns to schooling

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A Light - Journal of Labor Economics, 2001 - JSTOR
Students often accumulate substantial work experience before leaving school. Because
conventional earnings functions do not control for in-school work experience, their estimates
of the return to schooling include the benefit of work experience gained along the way. ...
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The effects of interrupted schooling on wages

A Light - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveal that 35 percent of white men
who leave school between 1979 and 1988 return to school by 1989. This paper examines
the wage effects of these nontraditional enrollment patterns. I estimate a wage model ...
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Why parents play favorites: Explanations for unequal bequests

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A Light… - 2003 - nber.org
Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for
family transfers, yet recent empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of
altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major stumbling block has ...
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Gender differences in the marriage and cohabitation income premium*

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A Light - Demography, 2004 - Springer
Abstract Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I identify causal
effects of marriage and cohabitation on total family income. My goals are to compare men's
and women's changes in financial status upon entering unions and to assess the relative ...
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Hazard model estimates of the decision to reenroll in school

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A Light - Labour Economics, 1995 - Elsevier
In a sample of males drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, one-third of the
individuals who first leave school between 1978 and 1990 are found to return to school
before 1991. In light of this finding, the current study extends the analysis of schooling ...
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Gender differences in wages and job turnover among continuously employed workers

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A Light… - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
The labor force participation rate of American women has risen steadily since World War II.
This may reflect an increase in the number of women entering the labor force to pursue"
spotty" careers, a rise in the number of continuously employed women, or both. The ...
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From Bakke to Hopwood: Does race affect college attendance and completion?

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A Light… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002 - MIT Press
In light of recent, state-level actions banning racial preference in college admissions
decisions, we investigate how whites and minorities differ in their college-going behavior.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate a sequential ...
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Estimating returns to schooling: When does the career begin?

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A Light - Economics of Education Review, 1998 - Elsevier
Because the life cycle is not neatly divided into a period of full-time schooling followed by a
period of full-time employment, it is unclear where analysts should “start the clock” on the
career for purposes of estimating the returns to schooling. This study uses data from the ...
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High school employment, high school curriculum, and post-school wages

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A Light - Economics of Education Review, 1999 - Elsevier
The direct, skill-enhancing effect of high school employment is difficult to identify because
high school work effort is correlated with curricular choices, postsecondary schooling and
work effort, and many other observed and unobserved factors. This study uses data for ...
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Who Receives the College Wage Premium?

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A Light… - Journal of Human Resources, 2004 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate wage
models in which college-educated workers are classified according to their degree
attainment, college type, and college transfer status. The detailed taxonomy produces ...
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[CITATION] High school employment

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Job mobility and wage growth: Evidence from the nlsy79

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A Light - Monthly Lab. Rev., 2005 - HeinOnline
Data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth provide an unusually complete
history of employment experiences; analyses of why workers separate from their employers,
frequencies of these separations, and job mobility's impact on earnings reveal that today's ...
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[PDF] Measurement error in schooling: Evidence from samples of siblings and identical twins

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A Flores-Lagunes… - Contributions to Economic …, 2004 - econ.eller.arizona.edu
For at least 25 years, labor economists have debated the value of sibling data for identifying
the causal effect of schooling on wages. Identification is problematic because many of the
unobserved factors that affect wages are invariably correlated with schooling. The ...
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[CITATION] Transitions from school to work: A survey of research using the National Longitudinal Surveys

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Unemployment insurance and job quits

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A Light… - Journal of Labor Economics, 2004 - JSTOR
We investigate an unexplored avenue through which unemployment insurance increases
unemployment. As unemployment insurance benefits rise, workers lose incentive to
“preempt” impending layoffs by changing jobs. We formalize this prediction in a job search ...
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Living arrangements, employment status, and the economic well-being of mothers: Evidence from Brazil, Chile, and the US

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A Light… - Journal of family and economic issues, 2004 - Springer
Using data from Brazil, Chile, and the US, we estimate country specific models of household
income that characterize mothers according to their marital status, living arrangement, and
employment status. We assess the predicted economic well-being of each type of mother ...
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Why are the wages of job stayers procyclical?

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D Shin, K Shin, JG Altonji… - Macroeconomic …, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
This paper explains how real wages are procyclical for those who stay with the same
employer. On the basis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data for the period from 1974–
1975 to 1990–1991, we find that the substantial wage procyclicality among job stayers is ...
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[PDF] Interpreting sheepskin effects in the returns to education

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A Flores-Lagunes… - Unpublished manuscript, 2007 - ers.princeton.edu
Abstract Researchers often identify sheepskin effects by including degree attainment (D)
and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these
measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability ...
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[PDF] Identifying sheepskin effects in the returns to education

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A Flores-Lagunes… - University of Arizona, memo, 2004 - iza.org
A central issue in the economics of education literature is whether credentialed workers
(those who receive high school diplomas or college degrees) earn more than
observationally equivalent non-credentialed workers. Such “sheepskin effects” are ...
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Identifying race and ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

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A Light… - Population Research and Policy Review, 2007 - Springer
Abstract The 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is among the few surveys to
provide multiple reports on respondents' race and ethnicity. Respondents were initially
classified as Hispanic, black, or “other” on the basis of data collected during 1978 ...
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Economic Incentives and Family Formation

A Light… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This study identifies the effects of economic factors that can be directly manipulated
by public policy on women's union-forming decisions. We jointly model transitions made by
never-married women to cohabitation or marriage, cohabiting women to marriage or ...
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High School Employment. National Longitudinal Surveys Discussion Paper.

A Light - 1995 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data characterizing a racially
heterogeneous sample of 1,897 male and female high school graduates were analyzed to
determine the impact of employment while in high school on subsequent wages. The ...
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Divorce as risky behavior

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A Light… - Demography, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how
individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox
divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that ...
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Interpreting degree effects in the returns to education

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A Flores-Lagunes… - Journal of Human Resources, 2010 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and
years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these
measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability ...
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[CITATION] Notes on the NLS schooling data

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[CITATION] New Evidence on School Desegregation

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[CITATION] From Bakke to Hopwood: Does Race Affect College Attendance and Completion?

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Measurement error in schooling: evidence from samples of siblings and identical twins

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A Light… - Contributions in Economic Analysis & …, 2006 - degruyter.com
The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on
our ability to eliminate biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically
assume errors in schooling reports are" classical." In this study, we use generalized ...
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[CITATION] Determinants of College Completion: School Quality or Student Ability?

A Light… - … LIBRARY OF CRITICAL …, 2003 - EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD
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[BOOK] In-School Work Experience and the Returns to Schooling

A Light… - 1996 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Students often accumulate substantial work experience before leaving school.
Because conventional earnings functions do not control for in-school work experience, their
estimates of the return to schooling include the benefit of work experience gained along ...
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[CITATION] Measuring the Accumulation of Early Career Work Experience: Implications for Gender Wage Differentials

A Light… - 1991 - info mimeo, State University of New …
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[CITATION] Job shopping and the wage growth of young men

AL Light - 1987 - University of California, Los Angeles
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[CITATION] Interpreting panel data on job tenure

JN Brown… - 1989 - … , State University of New York at …
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[PDF] Can Long-Term Cohabiting and Marital Unions be Incentivized?

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A Light… - 2010 - sole-jole.org
Family formation in the US changed dramatically over the last three decades: marriage rates
declined, divorce rates rose sharply, and cohabitation among unmarried couples became
increasingly common. These patterns have been carefully documented (Bumpass and Lu ...
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[CITATION] Women's Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the NLS

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A Light… - American Economic Review, 1990
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Determinants of Long-Term Unions: Who Survives the 'Seven Year Itch'?

A Light… - Unpublished paper, September, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Most studies of union formation focus on the probability of marrying, cohabiting, or
divorcing in the next year. In this study, we take a long-term perspective by considering
probabilities of forming unions by certain ages and maintaining them for eight or more ...
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[CITATION] Job Shopping and the Effect of Wage Cuts on Wage Growth

A Light - 1988 - … , State University of New York at …
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Fixed effects maximum likelihood estimation of a flexibly parametric proportional hazard model with an application to job exits

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A Light… - Economics Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Abstract We extend the fixed effects maximum likelihood estimator to a proportional hazard
model with a flexibly parametric baseline hazard. We use the method to estimate a job
duration model for young men, and show that failure to account for unobserved fixed ...

[CITATION] A Competing Risks Hazard Model of Schooling and Job Turnover

A Light, Y Omori… - 1996 - Department of Economics. The Ohio …
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[PDF] Employer Learning and the “Importance” of Skills

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A Light… - 2011 - sole-jole.org
The term “employer learning” has become associated with a class of empirically testable
models in which employers learn the productivity of workers over time. In these models,
wages at the start of the career are closely tied to schooling attainment and other readily- ...
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[PDF] Living Arrangements, Employment Status, and the Economic Well-Being of Mothers: Evidence from Brazil, Chile and the United States

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A Light… - 2000 - ecolan.sbs.ohio-state.edu
ABSTRACT: Using survey data for mothers in Brazil, Chile, and the United States, we
estimate country-specific models of household income that characterize sample members
according to the interaction of their marital status, living arrangement, and employment ...
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[CITATION] Gender Differences in the Quit Behavior of Young Workers

A Light… - 1990 - Citeseer
... [www.bls.gov]. Save to List; Add to Collection; Correct Errors; Monitor Changes. by Audrey Light ,
Manuelita Ureta. ... MISC{Light90genderdifferences, author = {Audrey Light and Manuelita Ureta},
title = { Gender Differences in the Quit Behavior of Young Workers}, year = {1990} }. ...
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[CITATION] Who Receives the College Wage Premium?

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W Strayer… - Journal of human resources, 2004 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... Who Receives the College Wage Premium? Autores: Wayne Strayer, Audrey Light;
Localización: Journal of human resources, ISSN 0022-166X, Vol. 39, Nº 3, 2004 , págs.
746-773. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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