Browsing by Subject "Labor market"

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    • Dan Cornfield: "Pathways Out of Poverty, and Toward the American Dream: The Case of Nashville" 
      Cornfield, Daniel B.; Wood, David, 1946- (Vanderbilt University, 2009-03-09)
    • Education Match and Job Match 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
      Using a new data set, this paper gives evidence in support of the intuitive notion that overqualified workers are less satisfied with their jobs and are more likely to quit. However, training time is inversely related to ...
    • Labor Market for New Ph.D.s in 2002 
      Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)
      This paper reports results from a survey of the labor market experience of the 2001-02 class of Ph.D. economists. We estimate that 850 economics Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2001-02, down about 100 from five ...
    • Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Viscusi, W. Kip (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010)
      Economic research has developed estimates of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL) on dimensions such as individual age, income, immigrant status, and the nature of the risk exposure. This paper examines ...