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Title: Essays in Labor Economics
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VanderBerg, Bryce Scott |
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Essays in Labor Economics Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Education, Adult; Layoffs; Occupations; Wage Dynamics; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation consists of two empirical studies and one applied theoretical study in labor economics. In the first chapter, I study the extend to which an observed layoff is used by employers to infer a worker's unobserved ability early in their labor market career. In the second chapter, I develop a theoretical model of wage dynamics that extends the employer learning and statistical discrimination model of Altonji and Pierret (2001) to allow for discrete changes in observable characteristics. In the third chapter, which is joint work with Gabrielle Pepin at the W.E. Upjohn Institute, we study the contribution of occupational sorting and mismatch to child penalties in the United States. |
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VanderBerg, Bryce Scott. Essays in Labor Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2022. |