Kevin C Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin C Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kevin C. Duncan is Professor of Economics in Hasan School of Business at Colorado State University-Pueblo. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effect of Federal Davis-Bacon and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Regulations on Highway Maintenance Costs
The author compares winning bids on state and federal highway maintenance projects in Colorado between 2000 and 2011 to determine whether federal prevailing wage and disadvantaged business enterprise regulations are associated with increased construction costs. The effect of the Davis-Bacon Act is evaluated when average wage rates prevail for almost all workers involved in highway maintenance for most of the period of the study. The federal minim…
Gender Differences in the Effect of Education on the Slope of Experience-Earnings Profiles
TWO earnings models are estimated for men and women of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth (1979 to 1988). Model 1 (a standard human capital equation) indicates women receive a relatively higher earnings effect from another year of education and week of work, suggesting that narrowing of the wage gap can occur through increasing these. However, increases in female education of over 20%, or increases in weeks worke…
Racial disparity in earnings and earnings growth
Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for Youth indicates a vintage effect (lower black-white earnings ratios for older cohorts relative to younger cohorts), but an examination of longitudinal earnings ratios suggests such an effect can be attributed to intra-cohort deterioration of black earnings over the life cycle rather than to inter-cohort differences in school quality. Regression results indicate that the…
Starting wages of women in female and male occupations
Using mature women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience we test the human capital propositions that predominantly female occupations are characterized by relatively higher starting wages and lower penalties for time spent out of the labor market. An examination of average hourly wage rates by level of work experience failed to indicate the kind of statistically significant starting wage differentials that would support…
The Vintage Schooling Hypothesis and Racial Differences in Earnings and On-The-Job Training
Why do younger black males earn more relative to whites than do older black males? The literature offers two competing explanations. Smith and Welch suggest this pattern is evidence that employers are rewarding the improved skills of more recently, better-educated blacks. Lazear, and Duncan and Hoffman suggest that the pattern is the result of employer discrimination that prevents blacks from entering occupations that offer on-the-job training (O…
Gender Differences in the Effect of Education on the Slope of Experience-Earnings Profiles
TWO earnings models are estimated for men and women of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth (1979 to 1988). Model 1 (a standard human capital equation) indicates women receive a relatively higher earnings effect from another year of education and week of work, suggesting that narrowing of the wage gap can occur through increasing these. However, increases in female education of over 20%, or increases in weeks worke…
The Effect of Federal Davis-Bacon and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Regulations on Highway Maintenance Costs
The author compares winning bids on state and federal highway maintenance projects in Colorado between 2000 and 2011 to determine whether federal prevailing wage and disadvantaged business enterprise regulations are associated with increased construction costs. The effect of the Davis-Bacon Act is evaluated when average wage rates prevail for almost all workers involved in highway maintenance for most of the period of the study. The federal minim…
Starting wages of women in female and male occupations
Using mature women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience we test the human capital propositions that predominantly female occupations are characterized by relatively higher starting wages and lower penalties for time spent out of the labor market. An examination of average hourly wage rates by level of work experience failed to indicate the kind of statistically significant starting wage differentials that would support…
The Vintage Schooling Hypothesis and Racial Differences in Earnings and On-The-Job Training
Why do younger black males earn more relative to whites than do older black males? The literature offers two competing explanations. Smith and Welch suggest this pattern is evidence that employers are rewarding the improved skills of more recently, better-educated blacks. Lazear, and Duncan and Hoffman suggest that the pattern is the result of employer discrimination that prevents blacks from entering occupations that offer on-the-job training (O…
Starting wages of women in female and male occupations
Using mature women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience we test the human capital propositions that predominantly female occupations are characterized by relatively higher starting wages and lower penalties for time spent out of the labor market. An examination of average hourly wage rates by level of work experience failed to indicate the kind of statistically significant starting wage differentials that would support…
The Vintage Schooling Hypothesis and Racial Differences in Earnings and On-The-Job Training
Why do younger black males earn more relative to whites than do older black males? The literature offers two competing explanations. Smith and Welch suggest this pattern is evidence that employers are rewarding the improved skills of more recently, better-educated blacks. Lazear, and Duncan and Hoffman suggest that the pattern is the result of employer discrimination that prevents blacks from entering occupations that offer on-the-job training (O…
Racial disparity in earnings and earnings growth
Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for Youth indicates a vintage effect (lower black-white earnings ratios for older cohorts relative to younger cohorts), but an examination of longitudinal earnings ratios suggests such an effect can be attributed to intra-cohort deterioration of black earnings over the life cycle rather than to inter-cohort differences in school quality. Regression results indicate that the…
Gender Differences in the Effect of Education on the Slope of Experience-Earnings Profiles
TWO earnings models are estimated for men and women of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth (1979 to 1988). Model 1 (a standard human capital equation) indicates women receive a relatively higher earnings effect from another year of education and week of work, suggesting that narrowing of the wage gap can occur through increasing these. However, increases in female education of over 20%, or increases in weeks worke…
The Effect of Federal Davis-Bacon and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Regulations on Highway Maintenance Costs
The author compares winning bids on state and federal highway maintenance projects in Colorado between 2000 and 2011 to determine whether federal prevailing wage and disadvantaged business enterprise regulations are associated with increased construction costs. The effect of the Davis-Bacon Act is evaluated when average wage rates prevail for almost all workers involved in highway maintenance for most of the period of the study. The federal minim…
Economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Wage (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · National Longitudinal Surveys (4 works) · Earnings (3 works) · Earnings growth (3 works) · Human capital (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)