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Author: Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Resulting in 5 citations.
1. Ashenfelter, Orley
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Secretary of Labor's Invitational Conference on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Young Women
Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1979
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Earnings; Employment; Migration; Mobility, Job

The report summarizes the purpose and results of a conference on the NLS of Young Men and Young Women. The conference was held on March 29-30, l979 in Tucson, Arizona. Six scholarly papers were prepared for the conference. These papers represented studies which illustrated how the NLS youth sample could be used to shed light on important youth labor market phenomenon.
Bibliography Citation
Ashenfelter, Orley and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Secretary of Labor's Invitational Conference on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Young Women." Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1979.
2. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Impacts of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and the Post-Unemployment Wage
Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting (1976): 234-241
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Industrial Relations Research Association ==> LERA
Keyword(s): Job Search; Unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; Wages

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This study confirms that unemployment insurance (UI) benefits lead to longer spells of unemployment. While UI benefits also raise post-unemployment wages, these wage effects are statistically significant only in the cases of older males and females. Thus, the predictions of the search model are verified for these older groups of workers, but not for the younger cohorts. At the margin, the percentage wage gain for each additional week of unemployment is larger among older workers and among males.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Impacts of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and the Post-Unemployment Wage." Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting (1976): 234-241.
3. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain
American Economic Review 66,5 (December 1976): 754-766.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1827489
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Job Search; Unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; Wage Growth

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The estimated impact of unemployment insurance benefit changes on unemployed individual's duration of unemployment, postunemployment wages, and durations of spell out of the labor force is calculated. Three estimates are presented for each group: (1) the impact of the current benefit level relative to the absence of benefits; (2) the impact of increasing the replacement fraction from 0.4 to 0.5; and (3) the impact of increasing the replacement fraction from 0.0 to 1.0. The results seem to indicate that an increase in UI benefits would induce additional productive job search for older males and females, with the magnitudes of the impact on both postunemployment wages and duration of unemployment being larger for the males. In contrast, an increase in UI benefits appears to increase the duration of unemployment for the younger males and females but has no impact on their postunemployment wages.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain." American Economic Review 66,5 (December 1976): 754-766.
4. Regan, Tracy Lynn
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions
Journal of Population Economics 22,2 (April 2009): 463-499.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/fl15x021552ku124/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Wage Gap; Wages; Work Experience

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This paper models the bias from using potential vs actual experience in log wage models. The nature of the problem is best viewed as specification error as opposed to classical errors-in-variables. We correct for the discrepancy between potential and actual work experience and create a predicted measure of work experience. We use the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and extend our findings to the Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample. Our results suggest that potential experience biases the effects of schooling and the rates of return to labor market experience. Using such a measure in earnings models underestimates the explained portion of the male-female wage gap. We are able to separately identify the decomposition biases associated with incorrect experience measures and biased parameter estimates.
Bibliography Citation
Regan, Tracy Lynn and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions." Journal of Population Economics 22,2 (April 2009): 463-499.
5. Regan, Tracy Lynn
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Burghardt, Galen
A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Ability and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels
Economic Inquiry 45,4 (October 2007): 721-738.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00058.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Western Economic Association International
Keyword(s): Earnings; Education; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Human Capital; Modeling; Occupational Choice; Schooling; Skills; Wage Levels; Wealth; Work Experience

This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on individual wealth maximization. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data, we stratify our sample into 1-year full-time equivalent (FTE) work experience cohorts for 1985-1989. The estimated Mincerian "overtaking" cohort (the years of work experience at which individuals' observed earnings approximately equal what they would have been based on schooling and ability alone) corresponds to 13 FTE years of experience, yielding on average a rate of return of 10.3% and an average (optimal) 11.4 yr of schooling.
Bibliography Citation
Regan, Tracy Lynn, Ronald L. Oaxaca and Galen Burghardt. "A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Ability and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels." Economic Inquiry 45,4 (October 2007): 721-738.