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Title: Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market
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Brown, Charles |
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Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market Quarterly Journal of Economics 94,1 (February 1980): 113-134. Also: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/94/1/113.abstract Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Tenure; Marital Status; Public Sector; Unions; Vocational Training; Wages; Work Knowledge Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The theory of equalizing differences asserts that workers receive compensating wage premiums when they accept jobs with undesirable nonwage characteristics, holding the worker's characteristics constant. Previous research provides only inconsistent support for the theory, with wrong-signed or insignificant estimates of these wage premiums fairly common. An oftcited reason for these anomalies is that important characteristics of the worker remain unmeasured, biasing the estimates. In this paper, longitudinal data are used to test this conjecture. Although such data improve the control for worker characteristics, the plausibility of the estimates is not markedly improved. Alternative explanations for these results are considered. |
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Brown, Charles. "Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market." Quarterly Journal of Economics 94,1 (February 1980): 113-134.
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