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Title: Human Capital and Labor Market Employment: Additional Evidence for Women
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Jones, Ethel B. Long, James E. |
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Human Capital and Labor Market Employment: Additional Evidence for Women Journal of Human Resources 14,2 (Spring 1979): 270-279. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145649 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Employment; Human Capital Theory; Work Experience This paper examines the effect of using potential experience as a proxy for actual labor market experience. Researchers often are forced to use "potential experience" due to the lack of data covering individual work histories. The results show that using models with potential experience may be poor guides for policy decisions because they underestimate the effect of past work experience on female employment rates. The paper also demonstrates that differences in human capital variables explain part of the difference in the employment ratios of blacks and whites. Differences in the ability of the various models to explain the black-white employment rate gap suggest that further research is needed to understand the employment differences among groups of people. |
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Jones, Ethel B. and James E. Long. "Human Capital and Labor Market Employment: Additional Evidence for Women." Journal of Human Resources 14,2 (Spring 1979): 270-279.
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