The Causal Effect of Education on Learning
- David Card
- Economics, Education
- 1999
Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration
- David Card
- EconomicsJournal of Labor Economics
- 1 February 1997
This article uses 1990 census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on occupation‐specific labor market outcomes. I find that intercity mobility rates of natives and earlier immigrants are…
Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- David Card, A. Krueger
- Economics
- 1 October 1993
On April 1, 1992 New Jersey's minimum wage increased from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and…
Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling
- David Card
- Economics, Education
- 1 October 1993
A convincing analysis of the causal link between schooling and earnings requires an exogenous source of variation in education outcomes. This paper explores the use of college proximity as an…
Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems
- David Card
- Economics, Education
- 1 June 2000
This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education…
Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
- David Card, Joerg Heining, Patrick M. Kline
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 1 November 2012
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in…
The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market
- David Card
- Economics
- 1 August 1989
Using data from the Current Population Survey, this paper describes the effect of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 on the Miami labor market. The Mariel immigrants increased the Miami labor force by 7%,…
Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
- David Card, A. Krueger
- EducationJournal of Political Economy
- 1 May 1990
This paper estimates the effects of school quality--measured by the pupil/teacher ratio, average term length, and relative teacher pay--on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920…
Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
- David Card, J. Dinardo
- EconomicsJournal of Labor Economics
- 1 February 2002
The recent rise in wage inequality is usually attributed to skill‐biased technical change (SBTC), associated with new computer technologies. We review the evidence for this hypothesis, focusing on…
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
- David Card, A. Cardoso, Joerg Heining, Patrick M. Kline
- EconomicsJournal of Labor Economics
- 1 November 2016
We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of wages with respect to value added per…
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