AC Edwards… - Journal of Development Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using
data for El Salvador. Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980s, remittances
became a significant source of household income throughout the 1990s. We use the Cox ...
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 ...
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 ...
M Ureta - The American Economic Review, 1992 - JSTOR
In his 1982 paper, Robert E. Hall uses point-in-time observations of current job tenure to
estimate distributions of completed job tenure. His estimates provide the stylized facts, first,
that job duration is typically long and, second, that tenure distributions of blacks and ...
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 ...
M Ureta, A Cox Edwards… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990's
using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per
country. The outcomes we analyze include labor force participation rates, the distribution ...
S Duryea, AC Edwards… - seminar Mujer en el Trabajo: Un Reto …, 2001 - Citeseer
The decade of the 1990's in Latin America is characterized by moderate GDP growth and
stagnant per capita GDP. Table A1 in the appendix summarizes per capita GDP growth
trends for the 1980's and 1990's. A decade of stagnation followed by a mild recovery in the ...
[CITATION] Critical Decisions at a Critical Age: Adolescents and Young Adults in Latin America
S Duryea, AC Edwards… - Washington: Inter-American Development Bank, 2003
K McCue… - Tex. J. Women & L., 1995 - HeinOnline
The forces at work behind the rapid arrival of women in the workplace beginning in the
1960s are many and complex. No doubt, some of the impetus came from forces outside the
labor market1 while improved opportunities for women in the labor market also played an ...
[CITATION] Income Transfers and Children's Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador
A Cox-Edwards… - Long Beach, United States: California State University …, 1999
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 ...
M Ureta… - Economics of Education Review, 1998 - Elsevier
After a half century in which education was measured by school years completed, the US
Census Bureau has revised the measure of educational attainment focusing more on
degree recipiency and providing greater detail for the diversity of college degrees. At first ...
[CITATION] Income Transfers and Children's Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador
AC Edward… - California State University, Working Paper http://www. …, 2001
M Ureta… - Private Enterprise Research Center …, 2001 - econweb.tamu.edu
We are all familiar with the Mincer-styled career wage progression models for which time
worked and time out of school are the same, but there is no consensus regarding the
modeling of wages with interrupted careers. As a point of departure consider the Mincer- ...
M Ureta - InterAmerican Development Bank conference on …, 2005 - iza.org
Hurricane Mitch hit Nicaragua in November of 1998. I exploit the unique opportunity afforded
by Mitch to measure the impact of a truly exogenous change in the family budget on
children's and teenagers' advancement through the school system. Also, I examine the ...
[CITATION] Rural Labor Markets in Nicaragua
M Ureta - 2002 - Washington, DC: World Bank, …
[CITATION] Women in the LAC Labor Market
S Duryea, A Cox-Edwards… - Washington, DC, United States: Inter-American …, 2000
F Welch… - 2002 - emeraldinsight.com
Abstract: If wage growth over the career results from embellishment of one's skills, then
obsolescence is a matter of luck, a matter of the vagaries of market demand and of
innovations that prize alternative skills. If wage growth results from learning and adapting ...
[CITATION] Measuring Educational Attainment: The Old and the New Census Taxonomies of Educational Attainment
M Ureta… - Unpublished manuscript, Texas A&M, College Station, …, 1995
[CITATION] Employment of Married Women and Economic Development: Evidence from Latin American Countries
C Juhn… - Society of Labor Economists Meeting, Toronto, 2003
[CITATION] Measuring the Accumulation of Early Career Work Experience: Implications for Gender Wage Differentials
A Light… - 1991 - info mimeo, State University of New …
[CITATION] Women's Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the NLS
A Light… - American Economic Review, 1990
[CITATION] Labor force growth and unemployment rates, with an application to male-female differentials
M Ureta - 1987 - UCLA
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 ...
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} }. ...
[CITATION] La Emigración Internacional, Remesas y Educación: Evidencia de El Salvador
A Сох-Edwards… - 2003 - NBER Papeles de Trabajo
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