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A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 0 0 88 2 3 5 496
A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 51
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 1 2 722 8 18 28 4,396
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 15 1 1 1 82
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 54
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 104
Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education 0 1 3 422 7 16 34 1,476
An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka 0 0 0 567 0 0 1 3,483
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 0 0 0 383 3 4 7 915
Are Efficiency Wages Efficient? 0 0 0 150 3 9 13 469
Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills 0 0 0 26 2 5 6 72
Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies 0 0 0 61 2 3 3 430
Comments 0 0 0 1 3 4 4 5
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital 0 0 0 46 1 3 5 290
Discrimination and Worker Evaluation 0 0 1 52 0 0 3 102
Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty? 0 0 0 7 1 1 7 20
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 1 1 1 49 7 11 17 216
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 1 80 2 7 8 125
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 3 495 4 5 14 2,160
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 125 0 0 2 496
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 74 3 10 12 371
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 260 1 4 6 882
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 1 1 1 39 2 3 12 211
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 24 2 7 10 57
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 14 3 7 9 82
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 0 17 1 1 3 121
Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis 0 0 0 115 2 4 6 739
Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges 0 0 0 38 1 3 9 176
How Credible is the Credibility Revolution? 0 0 4 20 2 5 19 61
How Discrimination and Bias Shapes Outcomes 0 1 2 33 0 3 6 105
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 410 0 2 6 2,172
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 217 2 3 4 1,248
Hukou and Guanxi: How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China 0 0 0 29 2 4 5 42
Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence 0 0 3 1,409 7 10 19 6,186
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 0 87 1 1 1 420
Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment 0 1 1 202 2 3 5 756
Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 0 8 9 9 762
Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 145 2 4 4 1,134
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 0 19 1 2 4 67
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 1 11 2 5 12 66
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 1 1 13 13 20 20 40
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 55 2 2 4 169
Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets 0 0 0 251 1 3 5 1,061
Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations 0 0 0 12 2 3 5 30
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET: THEORY AND EMPIRICS 0 0 0 17 2 8 10 157
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 0 1 21 2 3 9 100
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 0 212 2 3 8 957
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 1 2 149 4 10 14 829
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 1 103 3 8 14 435
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 144
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 15 1 2 4 87
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 12 1 1 3 113
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 94 2 3 5 294
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 49 1 8 10 137
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 1 1 1 50 3 5 7 69
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 48 0 2 2 87
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 22 2 6 6 220
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 16 1 3 4 200
Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence 0 1 1 166 4 8 11 847
The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 47 0 1 2 108
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 1 1 7 1 4 6 14
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 3 7 10 13 20
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 89
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing 0 0 0 144 2 4 8 947
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade 0 0 0 31 0 4 6 130
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom 0 0 0 23 2 2 4 186
The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice 0 0 0 7 2 2 6 23
The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration 0 1 1 74 2 5 8 170
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 90 4 7 7 622
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 106 1 4 4 622
The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 0 0 0 78 3 4 6 272
The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs 0 0 1 18 2 2 7 53
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 1 30 2 7 8 124
The Nature of Technological Change 1960-2016 0 0 19 22 2 3 23 24
The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications 0 0 0 87 3 3 6 540
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications 0 0 1 76 6 11 26 233
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 3 62 1 1 9 772
The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 170 2 3 3 462
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales 0 0 1 157 3 7 17 413
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results 0 0 1 92 2 3 7 106
The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results 0 0 0 32 0 0 2 117
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 1 6 9 12 87
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 21 1 1 6 214
Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts 0 0 0 59 1 3 4 541
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 40
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 20 1 1 3 157
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 14 1 3 3 128
Total Working Papers 3 12 59 9,316 193 383 680 44,290


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Language Theory of Discrimination 0 0 1 598 79 83 95 2,285
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 0 2 630 2 9 23 3,521
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 87
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 1 2 7 302 2 6 14 1,114
Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once? 0 0 0 45 1 4 5 323
Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation 0 0 1 10 1 6 24 103
Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 2 13 13 4 12 47 47
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital 0 0 2 14 0 2 6 95
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 4 13 1 3 11 152
Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? 0 0 12 379 4 9 46 1,918
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 318 3 10 15 1,330
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 4 6 7 10 469
Education and Labor Market Discrimination 0 1 2 172 2 5 11 688
Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 502
Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems 0 0 0 119 0 0 3 412
Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 21
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 1 101 1 5 8 702
Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 149
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? 1 1 7 7 16 20 30 30
Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws 0 3 10 611 0 9 24 1,466
Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data 4 14 56 2,726 9 32 111 5,846
Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact? 0 0 1 5 1 7 10 36
Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 120
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 1 42 0 2 4 254
Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition 0 0 3 148 4 8 20 668
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 42 0 0 3 211
Monitoring for Worker Quality 0 0 0 19 1 2 4 65
Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 253
Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence 0 0 1 64 0 0 1 269
Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment 0 0 0 29 1 2 3 175
Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition 0 1 1 51 2 5 10 211
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 1 3 37 2 9 31 248
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 1 131 1 5 8 443
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 1 8 229 4 49 149 1,024
Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights 0 0 0 20 1 1 3 176
Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior 0 0 0 65 3 5 8 344
Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials 0 0 1 85 1 3 9 261
School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect 0 1 1 50 2 9 13 164
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 3 3 4 6 113
THE PRICING OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS WHEN MARKETS DO NOT CLEAR: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 0 0 0 68 1 2 4 358
The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 18 0 1 4 82
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 1 19 19 24 31
The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 205
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade 0 1 1 26 2 6 8 220
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non‐random 0 0 0 23 3 5 9 216
The Contractors' Game 0 0 0 118 0 1 2 922
The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 0 0 0 104 2 7 8 399
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand 0 0 0 128 1 4 7 525
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 2 95 0 4 26 369
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications 3 6 15 43 9 21 67 183
The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory 0 0 4 294 0 1 10 1,041
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 0 67 1 5 6 405
The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales 0 0 4 77 1 9 30 453
The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence 0 0 0 364 1 4 5 804
The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results 0 0 1 33 0 0 4 190
Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000 0 0 0 10 1 1 2 57
Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type 0 0 0 4 2 2 3 22
Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated? 0 0 0 68 0 2 3 481
Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 32 1 10 13 241
Why was there mandatory retirement? 0 0 0 49 1 5 6 134
Total Journal Articles 9 34 166 8,722 207 455 1,031 33,633


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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased* 0 0 1 7 2 8 11 36
Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination 0 0 1 501 1 1 8 5,853
Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent? 0 0 0 59 0 1 5 245
Why Do Firms Monitor Workers? 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 8
Total Chapters 0 0 2 567 3 12 29 6,142


Statistics updated 2026-01-09