Rising Wage Inequality, Comparative Advantage, and the Growing Importance of General Skills in the United States

By Eric D. Gould. Journal of Labor Economics, 2002

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Estimating distributions of potential outcomes using local instrumental variables with an application to changes in college enrollment and wage inequality (2009, result): “Our findings (and those of the recent literature cited above) are inconsistent with such a model (see also Heckman and Scheinkman, 1987, Heckman and Sedlacek, 1985, and Gould, 2002, 2005).”
Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty (2001, unknown): “…(1997), Acemoglu (1998), Caselli (1999), Galor and Moav (2000), Eicher and Gracia-Penalosa (2001), Gould et al. (2001), Aghion et al. (2002), Gould (2002), Violante (2002) and Rubinstein and Tsiddon (2004), among others, have recently contributed to the theoretical study of the effect of…”
Cities, Workers, and Wages: A Structural Analysis of the Urban Wage Premium (2007, background): “Moving Costs = movecosts(cityt, age, kt) if cityt 6= cityt−1 = 0 if cityt = cityt−1 (6)”