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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 551–570.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... In combination, the two processes—women's advantage in higher education and the increasing returns to education—are expected to improve the economic attainment of women relative to men, thereby advancing gender equality. Indeed, gender occupational segregation and gender wage gaps have been in decline since...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 1–21.
Published: 26 October 2011
.... This hybrid model, when it assesses within-individual changes in number of children and wage attainments, controls for all time-stable differences in orientations and preferences between mothers and other women, and thus “yields the same estimators of key parameters as a fixed effects model” (Halaby 2003...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 587–615.
Published: 01 November 2006
... years, there are no clear signs of a decline; and (3) labor markets reward quite heavily traits such as educational attainment and cognitive performance. They also reward personality traits and characteristics that are less tangible than a diploma. Despite this, wages, income, and social class positions...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 593–602.
Published: 01 November 1994
.... Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Force Experiences-Youth Cohort provide evidence that employment histories and wages influence birth control practices, net of the effects of family background, aspirations, and educational attainment. Several pronounced racial and ethnic differences...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 345–365.
Published: 03 January 2019
.... As a result of having more children and a lower likelihood of being married, they and their families are more likely to fall below the federal poverty line (FPL). Our finding that the sizable difference in educational attainment has no estimated effect on wage income differs from the majority of studies...
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Published: 02 October 2015
Fig. 4 Estimated returns to education. Calculations are based on white men born in the contiguous United States. Estimates are derived from a regression of the log wage on educational attainment, birth year-quarter fixed effects, and the interaction between birth year and educational attainment
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 35–52.
Published: 01 February 1988
... , 15 , 56 – 66 . Smith , S. ( 1977 ). EqualPay in the Public Sector: Fact Dr Fantasy . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Stolzenberg , R. M. ( 1975 ). Occupations, labor markets and the process of wage attainment . American Sociological Review , 40 , 645 – 665...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1147–1173.
Published: 11 April 2017
... than less in terms of securing labor market rewards, such as wages and stable employment (Elman and O’Rand 2004 ). Indeed, there are strong incentives to participate in schooling across the life course, particularly for those who exit the normative college years with lower attainment. The labor market...
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Published: 01 April 2024
Fig. 5 Full and base algorithm wage gaps, wage gap difference, Medicaid group wage gap, and Medicaid group weight. This figure shows estimates of the wage penalty between legal and undocumented immigrants as in Borjas and Cassidy (2019) . We regress (separately in each year) the log hourly wage
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 59–82.
Published: 27 December 2017
...: Socioeconomic origins, adult education, and wage attainment . American Journal of Sociology , 110 , 123 – 160 . 10.1086/386273 . Erikson , R. , & Goldthorpe , J. H. ( 2002 ). Intergenerational inequality: A sociological perspective . Journal of Economic Perspectives , 16 ( 3 ), 31...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 357–361.
Published: 01 August 2001
...-generation educational attainment on the mean log wage of the 1910 immigrant group.6 The third row of Table 1 presents the relevant coefficients. In column 1, the coefficient is 3.99 (s.e. = 1.53). Ex- cluding Mexicans and two other, smaller groups reduces the estimated coefficient to 1.82...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 165–189.
Published: 01 February 2021
... families . Journal of Marriage and Family , 74 , 829 – 845 . Elman C. , & O'Rand A. M. ( 2004 ). The race is to the swift: Socioeconomic origins, adult education, and wage attainment . American Journal of Sociology , 110 , 123 – 160 . Fan C. C. , & Huang Y...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 349–356.
Published: 01 August 2001
... and their own educational attainment.6 To be fair, there is one variation in which some effect of first-generation inequalities remains. If we use 1910 logged wages as the measure of human capital in predicting third- generation educational attainment (as Borjas did not do), its coefficient is significant...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 439–458.
Published: 01 May 2010
... starting wage, the steepness of the earning profile, attitudes toward gendered family roles, and gender composition. The results indicate that the postponement of motherhood is relatively limited among graduates from study disciplines in which stereotypical attitudes about family roles prevail and in which...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 849–863.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., Self-selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence From Mexico and the United States . Journal of Political Economy , 113 , 239 – 81 . 10.1086/427464 Chiswick B.R. ( 1984 ). Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market: An Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Earnings...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 83–103.
Published: 01 February 2003
... for university graduates to those of high school graduates) are higher for women than for men. At the same time, the association between higher educa- tional attainment and entry into large firms (which typically offer higher wages) has been Table 1. Rates of Continuation to Higher Education, Mean Age...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2253–2277.
Published: 02 December 2019
... demographic characteristics (Hurst 1997 ; Trejo 1997 ; Zeng and Xie 2004 ). However, in the case of African American men, their average wages are about 15% lower than for white men after these demographic characteristics and occupational attainment are controlled for (Couch and Daly 2002 ; Farley 1996...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2181–2200.
Published: 02 October 2017
... effect on state-to-state migration, similar to our findings. 6 In the context of international migration, most studies have used observed educational attainment to predict wages in the destination country. Taking the number of immigrants as given, their focus has been on the sign of the selection...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 2000
... attainment, the 1950 PUMS re- sults suggest that the mean wages across the racial groups did not correlate highly with mean years of schooling. By contrast, the results for the 1990 PUMS show quite a high correlation: The rank-order of the races in mean hourly wage is virtually identical to their ranking...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 379–388.
Published: 01 August 1971
... of economic variables (the wage rate, income and assets) on the quantity of labor supplied by male heads of poor families. Although various demographic variables were also included in the analysis, their contribution was only briefly discussed as they were included primarily to control for noneconomic...
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