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Title: Essays on Human Capital, Health Capital, and the Labor Market
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Hokayem, Charles |
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Essays on Human Capital, Health Capital, and the Labor Market Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, 2010. Also: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/23/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Kentucky Keyword(s): Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Noncognitive Skills; Racial Differences; Self-Esteem; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation consists of three essays concerning the effects of human capital and health capital on the labor market. Chapter 2 explores the role of another form of human capital, noncognitive skills, in explaining racial gaps in wages. Chapter 2 adds two noncognitive skills, locus of control and self-esteem, to a simple wage specification to determine the effect of these skills on the racial wage gap (white, black, and Hispanic) and the return to these skills across the wage distribution. The wage specifications are estimated using pooled, between, and quantile estimators. Results using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 show these skills account for differing portions of the racial wage gap depending on race and gender. |
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Hokayem, Charles. Essays on Human Capital, Health Capital, and the Labor Market. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, 2010.. |