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Why do earnings fall with job displacement? by Carrington, William J, Fallick, Bruce

“…Displaced workers experience reduced earnings for many years. While this empirical phenomenon is well established, the theory of displacement‐induced earnings…”
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Sex Segregation in U.S. Manufacturing by Carrington, William J., Troske, Kenneth R.

“…This study of interplant sex segregation in the U.S. manufacturing industry improves on previous work by using more detailed information on the characteristics…”
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Cigarette Taxes and the Federal Budget — Report from the CBO by Baumgardner, James R, Bilheimer, Linda T, Booth, Mark B, Carrington, William J, Duchovny, Noelia J, Werble, Ellen C

“…To assess the likely effects on spending and budget deficits of federal policies promoting a healthier population, the Congressional Budget Office modeled the…”
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Brain Drain Revisited: The Economic Impact of Immigration by CARRINGTON, WILLIAM J., CARRINGTON, EDWARD

“…As the growth of protests directed at the Group of 20 has shown, world economies are becoming increasingly globalized in ways that create both opportunities…”
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The Role of Employer/Employee Interactions in Labor Market Cycles: Evidence from the Self-Employed by Carrington, William J., McCue, Kristin, Pierce, Brooks

“…Self-employed workers are less likely to be affected by implicit contracts, efficiency wages, and other forces that mute wage cyclicality and exacerbate…”
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Migration with endogenous moving costs by Carrington, W.J. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.), Detragiache, E, Vishwanath, T

“…We study a dynamic model of labor migration in which moving costs decrease with the number of migrants already settled in the destination. This assumption is…”
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The Alaskan Labor Market during the Pipeline Era by Carrington, William J.

“…Built between 1974 and 1977, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was the largest privately financed construction project in world history. The Alaskan labor market…”
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On Measuring Segregation in Samples With Small Units by Carrington, William J., Troske, Kenneth R.

“…Standard indexes of segregation measure a sample's distance from evenness, which occurs when each sample unit (e.g., an occupation) has the population share of…”
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Nondiscrimination Rules and the Distribution of Fringe Benefits by Carrington, William J., McCue, Kristin, Pierce, Brooks

“…This article considers the impact of nondiscrimination (ND) rules in the federal tax code. Nondiscrimination rules limit within‐firm inequality in the…”
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Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap by Carrington, William J., Troske, Kenneth R.

“…This article studies interfirm racial segregation in two newly developed firm‐level databases. We find that the interfirm distribution of black and white…”
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Wage Losses for Displaced Workers: Is It Really the Firm That Matters? by Carrington, William J.

“…Many studies have shown that displaced workers experience substantial wage reductions that are strongly related to their predisplacement job tenure and…”
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Using Establishment Size to Measure the Impact of Title VII and Affirmative Action by Carrington, William J., McCue, Kristin, Pierce, Brooks

“…Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Affirmative Action apply most forcefully to large employers. The laws' focus on large employers implies that if…”
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The Impact of 1970s Repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese Labor Market by Carrington, William J., Pedro J. F. de Lima

“…This paper examines the labor market effect of the retornados who immigrated to Portugal from Angola and Mozambique in the mid-1970s following Portugal's loss…”
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Gender Segregation in Small Firms by Carrington, William J., Troske, Kenneth R.

“…This paper studies interfirm gender segregation in a unique sample of small employers. We find that interfirm segregation is prevalent among small employers,…”
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Interindustry Variation in the Costs of Job Displacement by Carrington, William J., Zaman, Asad

“…Job displacement entails a substantial wage reduction for most displaced workers. We show that the mean reduction, the tenure profile of reductions, and the…”
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Black/White Wage Convergence: The Role of Public Sector Wages and Employment by Carrington, William J., McCue, Kristin, Pierce, Brooks

“…This paper assesses the relative contribution of the public and private sectors, through their employment and wages, to the black/white wage convergence that…”
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Do some workers have minimum wage careers? by Carrington, William J., Fallick, Bruce C.

“…Most workers who begin their careers in minimum-wage jobs eventually gain more experience and move on to higher paying jobs. However, more than 8% of workers…”
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On Measuring Segregation in Samples with Small Units by Carrington, William J., Troske, Kenneth R.

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The Impact of 1970s Repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese Labor Market by Carrington, William J., de Lima, Pedro J. F.

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The Alaskan Labor Market during the Pipeline Era by Carrington, William J

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