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Title: Empirical Tests of Dual Labor Market Theory and Hedonic Measures of Occupational Attainment
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1. Freiman, Marc Philip
Empirical Tests of Dual Labor Market Theory and Hedonic Measures of Occupational Attainment
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1976. DAI-A 38/01, p. 379, Jul 1977
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Employment; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Industrial Relations; Labor Market, Secondary; Mobility; Mobility, Job; Occupational Status; Schooling; Wages

Dual labor market theory was tested by examining the occupational mobility patterns (and their determinants) for whites, nonwhites, and nonwhites with fewer than twelve years of education. The primary data source was the NLS of Young Men, although the Survey of Economic Opportunity (l967), and job data from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles were also used in the analysis. Occupational status was defined by two measures: the hourly wage rate and a measure of occupational prestige derived from an estimated hedonic price index for occupational characteristics. The primary focus was on the effect of initial job quality on subsequent mobility.
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Freiman, Marc Philip. Empirical Tests of Dual Labor Market Theory and Hedonic Measures of Occupational Attainment. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1976. DAI-A 38/01, p. 379, Jul 1977.