Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Liu, Kai"
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Explaining the gender wage gap : estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes
Liu, Kai (Discussion paper;15/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for part-time work and in ... -
Explaining the gender wage gap: Estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes.
Liu, Kai (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for hours of work and in ... -
Good skills in bad times : cyclical skill mismatch and the long-term effects of graduating in a recession
Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Sørensen, Erik Ø. (Discussion paper;16/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating ... -
Health insurance coverage for low-income households : consumption smoothing and investment
Liu, Kai (Discussion Papers;16/2013, Working paper, 2013-10)I estimate the e ects of public health insurance on consumption smoothing and investigate the extent to which the public insurance interacts with private arrangements of self-insurance. Exploiting a dramatic expansion ... -
Life-cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms
Chan, Marc K; Liu, Kai (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018) -
Political Uncertainty and Household Savings
Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu (Discussion paper;34/14, Working paper, 2014-12)Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after ... -
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform
Carneiro, Pedro; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. (DP SAM;16/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find that skilled wages ...