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Author: Lee, Sang-Hyop
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1. Lee, Sang-Hyop
A Re-examination of Government Wage Differentials in the United States: Evidence from the NLSY with Geocode
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 43,2 (April 2004): 448-472.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00338.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Heterogeneity; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, OLS; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Wage Differentials

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While many researchers have sought to estimate federal-private wage differentials in the US, most of them ignore the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and selectivity among sectors. This paper seeks to fill the gap in previous literature by utilizing a more appropriate data set and several compelling techniques. The main results suggest substantial bias in OLS estimates of federal-private wage differentials due to individual heterogeneity and self-selection. The direction of bias under selectivity correction is consistent with results from both test-score approach estimates and the fixed-effect estimates.
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Lee, Sang-Hyop. "A Re-examination of Government Wage Differentials in the United States: Evidence from the NLSY with Geocode." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 43,2 (April 2004): 448-472.