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Lawrence F. Katz
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 319
Citations - 60116
Lawrence F. Katz is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 104, co-authored 318 publications receiving 55969 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence F. Katz include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Unemployment Insurance, Recall Expectations, and Unemployment Outcomes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the determinants of unemployment spell durations and the effects of unemployment insurance on unemployment outcomes in the United States using a unique sample of UI recipients from Missouri and Pennsylvania covering unemployment spells in the 1979-1981 period.
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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing
Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: The U.S. wage structure evolved across the last century: narrowing from 1910 to 1950, fairly stable in the 1950s and 1960s, widening rapidly during the 1980s, and "polarizing" since the late 1980s as mentioned in this paper.
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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies
Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: The first estimates of the returns to years of schooling before 1940 using a large sample individuals (from the 1915 Iowa State Census) were presented in this article, where returns to a year of high school or college were substantial in 1915, about 11 percent for all males and in excess of 12 percent for young males.
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Inter-Industry Wage Differences and Theories of Wage Determination
TL;DR: The authors examined the differences in wages across industries for both union and nonunion workers and found that even after controlling for a wide range of personal characteristics and geographic location, large wage differences persist for both unions and non-unions.
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The "virtues" of the past: education in the first hundred years of the new republic
Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the historical origins of these virtues and found that almost all of them were in place in the period before the American Civil War and that the outcomes of the virtues were an enormous diffusion of educational institutions and the early spread of mass education.