Access and returns to unpaid graduate work experience

Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited--Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

This paper explores whether within job and between job wage growth is lower for less-educated workers. While a simple model of heterogeneous learning ability predicts that individuals with low learning ability will have flatter wage profiles, this prediction has been largely ignored in the recent welfare reform debates. The key econometric problem in estimating returns to tenure and experience ...

The Returns to Quality in Graduate Education

This paper estimates the monetary return to quality in U.S. graduate education, controlling for cognitive ability and self-selection across award level, program quality, and field-of-study. In most program types, I cannot reject the hypothesis of no returns to either degree completion or program quality. Important exceptions include master’s programs in health science, where completion substant...

Integrating Unpaid Work into National Policies

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Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience

We develop a model linking maximum damage awards available to plaintiffs in wrongful termination lawsuits, workers’ propensity to sue as a function of experience, and returns to experience. Using Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data on protected-worker discrimination complaints and labor-market data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how returns to experience among protected...