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    • Ma, Eunseong (2019-03-29)
      This dissertation investigates inequality, business cycles, and macroeconomic policies. First, I investigate the quantitative implications of real wage rigidities and heterogeneity for two long-lasting puzzles in the ...
    • Li, Xin (2019-03-18)
      This dissertation is to investigate economic questions, especially questions about labor market, using methodology built upon modern economic theory and empirical study. The topics that I study in this dissertation include ...
    • Farias, Ruben (2012-10-19)
      Understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and structure is a fundamental sociological question. Since the founding of the social sciences -- when Marx explored the connection between the 'macrostructure' and ...
    • Reese, Roger Kirk (2014-09-24)
      It is critical that policy makers and researchers have an idea of what future earnings look like for a typical low-wage worker, and how this picture differs for individuals of various socio-demographic characteristics. In ...
    • Walker, Henry A. (2017-08-16)
      The author summarizes theories of equity and distributive justice that predict actors use legitimate distribution rules to act to maintain or to restore equity. He elaborates those ideas, distinguishing legitimacy based ...