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Marital Wage Premium or Ability Selection? The Case of Taiwan 1979-2003
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Chen et al. as mentioned in this paper used the Taiwan Quasi Longitudinal Data Archive (1979-2003) to estimate the male marital wage premium and found that most of the marital premium can be explained by pre-existing productivity differentials between married and unmarried men.Citations
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Married with children: What remains when observable biases are removed from the reported male marriage wage premium
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 59 studies and 661 estimates finds a marriage premium for US men of between 9% and 13% after misspecification and selection biases are filtered out.
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A Theory of Marriage: Part II
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Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
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The causal effect of education on earnings
TL;DR: This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and earnings and concludes that the average (or average marginal) return to education is not much below the estimate that emerges from a standard human capital earnings function fit by OLS.
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Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials and found that the increase in demand shifts for more-skilled workers in the 1970s and 1980s relative to the 1960s is entirely accounted for by an increase in within- industry changes in skill utilization rather than between-industry employment shifts.
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Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of skill-biased technological change as measured by computerization on the recent widening of U.S. educational wage differentials and found that the rate of skill upgrading has been greater in more computer-intensive industries.