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A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 0 0 88 1 1 9 500
A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers 0 0 1 21 1 2 5 55
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 1 2 723 2 4 32 4,406
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 15 0 1 5 86
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 8 1 2 4 57
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 32 1 2 6 108
Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education 0 1 2 423 2 5 34 1,490
An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka 1 1 1 568 3 8 12 3,494
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 0 0 0 383 1 3 10 920
Are Efficiency Wages Efficient? 0 0 1 151 2 4 20 478
Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills 0 0 0 26 7 9 18 84
Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies 0 0 0 61 4 5 14 441
Comments 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 11
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital 0 0 0 46 2 2 9 294
Discrimination and Worker Evaluation 0 0 0 52 5 5 12 112
Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty? 0 0 0 7 1 2 11 28
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 1 49 9 18 35 238
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 1 80 2 5 16 133
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 1 495 5 8 25 2,174
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 125 2 4 7 501
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 74 0 1 17 376
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 260 3 5 12 888
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 24 6 11 27 75
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 1 39 14 28 42 244
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 14 0 5 22 96
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 0 17 2 7 13 131
Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis 0 0 0 115 1 2 12 746
Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges 0 0 0 38 2 3 10 181
How Credible is the Credibility Revolution? 0 0 4 20 5 7 26 70
How Discrimination and Bias Shapes Outcomes 0 0 1 33 1 3 9 111
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 217 3 3 12 1,256
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 410 2 5 13 2,181
Hukou and Guanxi: How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China 0 0 0 29 4 4 9 47
Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence 0 0 2 1,410 7 16 35 6,206
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 0 87 2 3 10 429
Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment 0 0 1 202 2 3 11 763
Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 0 2 8 24 777
Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 145 3 7 16 1,146
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 1 11 3 3 16 73
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 2 14 2 3 28 48
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 0 19 3 8 15 79
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 55 0 4 8 175
Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets 0 0 0 251 4 6 19 1,075
Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations 0 0 0 12 2 6 13 39
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET: THEORY AND EMPIRICS 0 0 0 17 1 5 16 165
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 0 1 21 1 4 19 114
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 0 212 3 3 14 964
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 0 2 149 4 8 28 843
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 0 103 5 11 26 452
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 0 12 3 4 7 151
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 94 1 2 8 297
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 1 50 0 1 11 73
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 49 2 4 17 146
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 15 0 1 12 96
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 12 4 5 10 120
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 48 3 4 10 95
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 22 3 3 13 227
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 16 2 4 10 207
Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence 0 0 1 166 3 4 18 855
The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 47 5 7 9 115
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 3 5 7 21 29
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 16 3 4 11 97
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 1 7 1 5 12 22
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing 0 0 0 144 3 4 16 956
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade 0 0 0 31 2 8 22 148
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom 0 0 0 23 4 9 14 196
The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice 0 0 0 7 3 5 13 32
The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration 0 0 1 74 4 11 23 187
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 106 1 2 11 629
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 90 0 3 14 629
The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 0 0 0 78 1 3 10 277
The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs 0 0 1 18 4 6 16 62
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 1 30 3 6 19 135
The Nature of Technological Change 1960-2016 0 0 0 22 3 4 19 34
The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications 0 0 0 87 1 2 11 546
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications 1 1 1 77 4 5 27 245
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 3 62 3 8 20 783
The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 170 2 5 13 472
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales 0 1 2 158 4 12 31 432
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results 0 0 0 92 2 4 9 111
The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results 0 0 0 32 0 0 2 118
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 21 1 3 9 220
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 1 1 5 21 97
Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts 0 0 0 59 2 3 10 547
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 20 8 8 12 166
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 14 2 5 9 134
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 46
Total Working Papers 2 5 37 9,325 232 451 1,342 45,092


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A Language Theory of Discrimination 0 1 3 600 0 5 147 2,343
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 1 1 631 1 4 30 3,533
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 88
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 0 0 4 302 4 5 18 1,123
Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once? 0 0 0 45 3 3 10 328
Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation 1 2 2 12 1 6 23 111
Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 8 14 5 11 43 67
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital 0 0 1 14 4 4 12 103
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 2 13 2 3 14 159
Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? 0 3 10 382 3 17 55 1,941
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 318 1 3 18 1,337
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 4 1 4 14 474
Education and Labor Market Discrimination 0 0 1 172 5 7 14 696
Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 510
Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems 0 0 0 119 5 12 22 433
Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax 1 1 1 4 2 5 9 29
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 0 101 0 4 16 711
Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 154
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? 0 1 7 8 3 5 37 39
Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws 0 0 7 613 1 3 28 1,477
Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data 3 7 50 2,737 26 45 133 5,902
Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact? 0 0 1 5 1 5 19 46
Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 122
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 0 42 3 7 12 263
Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition 0 0 2 148 6 9 30 683
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 42 1 3 4 214
Monitoring for Worker Quality 0 0 0 19 3 4 7 69
Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws 0 0 0 0 2 5 12 260
Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence 0 1 1 65 2 4 5 274
Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment 0 0 0 29 1 2 9 181
Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition 1 1 3 53 6 9 23 225
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 1 2 38 1 10 46 273
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 1 131 1 1 10 447
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 1 6 230 5 14 140 1,053
Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights 0 0 0 20 5 7 14 188
Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior 0 0 0 65 2 2 10 349
Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials 0 0 1 85 2 4 16 272
School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect 0 0 1 50 2 11 28 182
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 3 2 2 10 118
THE PRICING OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS WHEN MARKETS DO NOT CLEAR: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 0 0 0 68 1 4 15 369
The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 18 5 7 12 91
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 1 3 4 32 43
The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 210
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade 0 1 2 27 2 6 20 232
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non‐random 0 0 0 23 0 5 18 226
The Contractors' Game 0 0 1 119 3 4 12 932
The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 0 0 1 105 1 1 15 407
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand 0 0 0 128 0 2 9 528
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 1 95 3 9 29 378
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications 2 3 14 46 8 14 69 205
The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory 0 0 4 294 5 5 15 1,049
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 0 67 1 10 20 420
The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales 1 3 4 81 8 19 48 481
The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence 0 0 0 364 3 7 18 818
The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results 0 0 1 33 1 1 5 193
Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000 0 0 0 10 1 2 4 59
Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 25
Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated? 0 0 0 68 3 4 7 486
Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 32 1 1 13 243
Why was there mandatory retirement? 0 0 0 49 1 2 9 138
Total Journal Articles 9 27 143 8,761 167 364 1,446 34,310


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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased* 0 0 1 7 4 9 22 47
Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination 0 0 0 501 3 3 10 5,859
Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent? 0 0 0 59 4 5 13 254
Why Do Firms Monitor Workers? 0 1 1 1 0 2 11 14
Total Chapters 0 1 2 568 11 19 56 6,174


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