Estimating a dynamic adverse-selection model: Labour-force experience and the changing gender earnings gap 1968-1997

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 227-267

  Gayle, George Levi ^a   Golan, Limor ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Dynamic general equilibrium; Gender earnings gap; Human Capital; Occupational sorting; Signalling; Statistical discrimination; Structural estimation of dynamic games

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; GENDER ISSUE; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR SUPPLY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84857022408     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdr019     Document Type: Article

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