Publications
BOOKS
Lang, K., Poverty and Discrimination, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Lang, K. and Leonard, J., eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
BOOK CHAPTERS/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Lang, K. “Poverty and the Labor Market,” in Jefferson, Philip N., ed., Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Lang, K. “Labor Market Segmentation,” in Darity, William A., et al, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale, 2007, 319-320.
Lang, K., “Discrimination, Wage,” in Darity, William A., et al, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale, 2007, 400-1.
Lang, K., “Postscript: Implications for Theories of Wage Determination and Turnover,” in Galizzi, M., Mobility, Relative Wages and Wage Growth: An Analysis of the Italian Labor Market in the Early 1980’s, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005, 118-128.
Lang, K. and Kahn, S. “Hours Constraints: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications,” in Wong, G. and Picot, G, eds., Working Time in a Comparative Perspective, Vol 1: Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn, 2001.
Lang, K. “Instytucje rynku pracy I inwestycje w kapital ludzki,” [Labor Market Institutions and Investment in Human Capital] in S. Golinowskiej and M. Walewskiego, eds., “Tworzenie Zatrudnienia a Restrukturyzacja Economiczna,” Warsaw: Case, 2000.
Farkas, G., Lang, K. and England, P.S., “Economic Sociology and Social Economics: Where Are We Now?” in Farkas, G. and England, P.,eds. Workers, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches, expanded edition, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994.
Lang, K. “Changes in Earnings Differentials in the 1980s: Comment,” in Papadimitriou, D. and Wolff, E., eds., Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the late Twentieth Century, London: MacMillan, 1993.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence,” in Darity, W., Jr. ed, Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets, NY: Kluwer, 1993. Reprinted in Reich, M. ed., Segmented Labor Markets and Labor Mobility, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
Borjas, G.J., Freeman, R.B. and Lang, K. “Undocumented Mexican-Born Workers in the United States: How Many? How Permanent?” in Abowd, J. M. and Freeman, R.B. ed., Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Dickens, W.T., Katz, L., Lang, K. and Summers, L.H. “Why Do Firms Monitor Workers,” in Weiss, Y. ed., Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment, New York: MacMillan, 1990.
Dickens, W. T. and Lang, K., “Why it Matters What We Trade: A Case for Active Policy,” in Dickens, W.T., Tyson, L., and Zysman, J., eds. The Employment Effects of International Trade, Boston: Ballinger, 1988.
Lang, K. and Dickens, W.T. “Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets,” in Farkas, G. and England, P.,eds. Workers, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches, New York: Plenum, 1988.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?: Deindustrialization and Theories of Dual Labor Markets,” in Lang, K. and Leonard, J., eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
Lang, K., Leonard, J. and Lilien, D. “The Multi-Sectored Economy: An Overview,” in Lang, K. and Leonard, J. eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
ARTICLES
Wan, S., T.N. Bond, K. Lang et al, “Is Fadeout a Scaling Artefact?” Economics of Education Review, 82 (June 2021) .
Gihleb, R. and Lang, K. “Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased.” Research in Labor Economics, 48 (2020): 1-26.
Lang, K. and Spitzer, A. K-L. “How Bias and Discrimination Shape Outcomes,” Future of Children, 30:1 (Spring 2020): 165-186.
Kahn-Lang, A. and Lang, K. “The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on `16
and Pregnant’ and Other Applications,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 38:3 (July 2020):613-20.
Lang, K. and Spitzer A. K-L. “Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34:2 (Spring 2020):68-89.
Cavounidis, C. and Lang, K. “Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation,” Journal of Political Economy, 128:4 (April 2020): 1405-35..
Lang, K. “Effort and Wages: Evidence from the Payroll Tax,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 53:1 (February 2020): 108-139.
Bond, T.N. and Lang, K. “The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales,” Journal of Political Economy, 127:4 (August 2019): 1629-1640.
Goel, D. and Lang, K. “Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 72:2 (August 2019): 355-81.
Bond, T.N. and Lang, K. “The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7,” Journal of Human Resources, 53 (Fall 2018): 891-917.
Li, H., Lang, K. and Leong, K. “Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore,” Economic Journal, 128 (June 2018): 1570-1608.
Bose, G. and Lang, K. “Monitoring for Worker Quality,” Journal of Labor Economics, 35 (July 2017): 755-85.
Barua, R. and Lang, K. “School Entry Age and Educational Attainment: A Cautionary Tale of LATE,” Journal of Human Capital, 10 (Fall 2016):347-76..
Lang, K. “Perspective on “Ageing and the skill portfolio: Evidence from job based skill measures” by Audra Bowlus, Hiroaki Mori and Chris Robinson,” Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 7 (April 2016):104-6.
Lang, K. and Weinstein, R. “The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7 (October 2015):169-97.
Lang, K. “Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny’s, After Civil Rights,” Journal of Economic Literature, 53 (June 2015): 351-9.
Bond, T. and Lang, K. “The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results.” Review of Economics and Statistics, (December 2013): 1468-79.
Lang, K. and Weinstein, R. “The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results,” Labour Economics, (October 2013): 230-43.
Ashcraft, A., Fernandez-Val, I and Lang, K., “The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom,” Economic Journal, (September 2013): 875-905.
Lang, K. and Lehmann, J-Y. K. “Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics,” Journal of Economic Literature, (December 2012): 959-1006.
Lang, K, and Nuevo Chiquero, A., “Trends in Spontaneous Abortions: 1970-2000,” Demography (August 2012): 1011-36.
Lang, K. and Siniver, E., “Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel,” Labour Economics 18 (December 2011): 767-77.
Lang, K. and Manove, M., “Education and Labor Market Discrimination,” American Economic Review, 100 (June 2011): 1467-96.
Lang, K. “Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (Summer 2010): 167-182.
Lang, K. and Siniver, E., “The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 9 (Issue 1, Topics) Article 50.
Donald, S. and Lang, K., “Inference with Differences-in-Differences and Other Panel Data,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (May 2007): 221-33.
Lang, K., Manove, M., and Dickens, W.T., “Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers,” American Economic Review, 95 (September 2005) 1327-40.
Angrist, J. and Lang, K., “Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston’s Metco Program,” American Economic Review, 94 (December 2004): 1613-34.
Lang, K., “Comment on Sara Lemos, ‘Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil’,” Economia, 5 (Fall 2004): 256-60.
Lang, K. and Majumdar, S., “The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications,” International Economic Review 45 (November 2004): 1111-1128.
Lang, K. and Jian, Tianlun, “Property Taxes and Property Values: Evidence from Proposition 2½,” Journal of Urban Economics 55 (May 2004): 439-457.
Lang, K. and Manove, M., “Wage Announcements with a Continuum of Types,” Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 71-72 (July/December 2003): 223-244.
Berman, E., Lang, K. and Siniver, E., “Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition,” Labour Economics, 10 (June 2003): 265-290.
Lang, K. and Rosenthal, R., “Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once,” Economic Journal, 111 (July 2001): 526-40.
Lang, K. and Zagorsky, J. “Does Growing Up with An Absent Parent Really Hurt?” Journal of Human Resources, 36 (Spring 2001): 253-73.
Lang, K. “The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand” Journal of Labor Economics 16 (October 1998): 792-814.
Lang, K. and Kahn, S. “The Effect of Minimum Wage Laws on the Distribution of Employment: Theory and Evidence” Journal of Public Economics, 69 (July 1998): 67-82.
Galizzi, M. and Lang, K. “Relative Wages, Wage Growth and Quit Behavior,” Journal of Labor Economics 16 (April 1998):368-91.
Lang, K. and Zagorsky, J. “Why Are Canadian and U.S. Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated,” Canadian Public Policy 24 (February 1998) S56-71.
Kahn, S. and Lang, K. “Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 29 (April 1996): S71-75.
Lang, K. and Gordon, P. “Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence,” Rand Journal of Economics, 26 (Winter 1995): 614-29.
Kahn, S. and Lang, K. “Sources of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada” Canadian Journal of Economics, 28 (November 1995): 914-28.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka” Journal of Development Studies, 31 (April 1995): 620-36.
Lang, K. “Does the Human Capital/Educational Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy.” American Economic Review, 94 (March 1994), 353-8.
Lang, K. “Language and Economists’ Theories of Discrimination,” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 103 (July/August 1993), 165-183.
DeLong, J.B. and Lang, K. “Are All Economic Hypotheses False?” Journal of Political Economy, 100 (Dec. 1992), 1257-72.
Kahn, S. and Lang, K. “Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific Capital,” Journal of Human Resources, 27 (Fall 1992), 661-678.
Kahn, S. and Lang, K. “The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 75 (November 1991), 605-11.
Lang, K. and Rosenthal, R. “The Contractor’s Game,” Rand Journal of Economics, 22 (Autumn 1991), 329-38.
Lang, K. “Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106 (February 1991), 181-202.
Lang, K. and Kahn, S. “Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View,” Economic Inquiry, 28, (April 1990), 296-306.
Lang, K. “Why Was There Mandatory Retirement?” Journal of Public Economics, 39 (June 1989), 127-36.
Dickens, W.T., Katz, L., Lang, K. and Summers, L.H. “Employee Crime, Monitoring and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis.” Journal of Labor Economics, 7 (July 1989), 331-47.
Friedberg, R., Lang, K., and Dickens, W.T. “The Changing Structure of the Female Labor Market: 1976-1984,” Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1988, (1989), 117-24.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 70 (August 1988): 527-30.
Lang, K. “Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply,” Economic Inquiry, 26 (July 1988), 533-6.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 78 (1988), 129-34.
Kahn, S. and Lang, K. “Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems” International Economic Review, 29 (1988), 157-66.
Lang, K. and Bell, D. “An Economic Model of the Intake Dispositions of Juvenile Offenders” Journal of Public Economics 32 (1987): 79-99.
Lang, K. “Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws” Economic Inquiry 25 (January 1987): 145-158.
Kahn, S., Lang, K. and Kadev, D. “National Union Leader Performance and Turnover in Building Trades” Industrial Relations 25 (Fall 1986): 276-291.
Lang, K. and Kropp, D. “Human Capital vs. Sorting: The Effect of Compulsory Attendance Laws” Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (August 1986): 609-624.
Lang, K. “A Language Theory of Discrimination,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (May 1986): 363-382.
Lang, K. and Ruud, P. “Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials” The Review of Economics and Statistics 68 (February 1986): 41-47.
Bell, D. and Lang, K. “The Intake Dispositions of Juvenile Offenders” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22 (November 1985): 309-328.
Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. “A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory” American Economic Review 75 (September 1985): 792-805. (Reprinted in Sattinger, M., ed., Income Distribution, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, 2001.
Lang, K. “Unions, Firms and the Returns to Seniority” Journal of Labor Research, 5 (Winter 1984): p. 81-92.
Submitted
Lang, K., Leong, K., Li, H. and Xu, H. “Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks.” under revision at the request of the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Cavounidis, C., Lang, K. And Weinstein, R. “The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers,” under revision at the request of the Economic Journal.
Lang, K. and Palacios, M. D., “The Determinants of Teachers’ Occupational Choice.”
Cavounidis, C, Dicandia, V., Lang, K., and Malhotra, R. “Estimating the Nature of Technological Change: Exploiting Shifts in Skill Use Within and Between Occupations.”
Popular Writings
Li, H., Lang, K. and Leong, K. “Competition Alone Will Not Eliminate Discrimination,” VoxEU, August 28, 2015, http://www.voxeu.org/article/competition-alone-will-not-eliminate-discrimination.
Lang, K. “Ballot Initiatives Take the Pulse of the Nation: Minimum Wage Increase,” The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/ballot-initiatives-take-the-pulse-of-the-nation-33821, November 5, 2014.
Bond, T.N. and Lang, K., “Using Happiness Scales to Inform Policy: Strong Words of Caution,” VoxEU, July 4, 2014, http://www.voxeu.org/article/using-happiness-scales-inform-policy-strong-words-caution
Lang, K. “Addressing the Teen Motherhood `Crisis’,” VoxEU, March 2, 2014, http://www.voxeu.org/article/addressing-teen-motherhood-crisis
Lang, K., “Children Having Children: Does It Matter?” Milken Institute Review, 9 (Second Quarter, 2007): 44-53.