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PDF version of my CV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOKS<\/strong>
\nLang, K., Poverty and Discrimination, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
\nLang, K. and Leonard, J., eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.<\/p>\n

BOOK CHAPTERS\/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES<\/strong>
\nLang, K. \u201cPoverty and the Labor Market,\u201d in Jefferson, Philip N., ed., Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cLabor Market Segmentation,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Lang, K., \u201cDiscrimination, Wage,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Lang, K., \u201cPostscript: Implications for Theories of Wage Determination and Turnover,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Kahn, S. \u201cHours Constraints: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cInstytucje rynku pracy I inwestycje w kapital ludzki,\u201d [Labor Market Institutions and Investment in Human Capital] in S. Golinowskiej and M. Walewskiego, eds., \u201cTworzenie Zatrudnienia a Restrukturyzacja Economiczna,\u201d Warsaw: Case, 2000.<\/p>\n

Farkas, G., Lang, K. and England, P.S., \u201cEconomic Sociology and Social Economics: Where Are We Now?\u201d in Farkas, G. and England, P.,eds. Workers, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches, expanded edition, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cChanges in Earnings Differentials in the 1980s: Comment,\u201d in Papadimitriou, D. and Wolff, E., eds., Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the late Twentieth Century, London: MacMillan, 1993.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cLabor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Borjas, G.J., Freeman, R.B. and Lang, K. \u201cUndocumented Mexican-Born Workers in the United States: How Many? How Permanent?\u201d in Abowd, J. M. and Freeman, R.B. ed., Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T., Katz, L., Lang, K. and Summers, L.H. \u201cWhy Do Firms Monitor Workers,\u201d in Weiss, Y. ed., Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment, New York: MacMillan, 1990.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W. T. and Lang, K., \u201cWhy it Matters What We Trade: A Case for Active Policy,\u201d in Dickens, W.T., Tyson, L., and Zysman, J., eds. The Employment Effects of International Trade, Boston: Ballinger, 1988.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Dickens, W.T. \u201cNeoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets,\u201d in Farkas, G. and England, P.,eds. Workers, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches, New York: Plenum, 1988.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cWhere Have All the Good Jobs Gone?: Deindustrialization and Theories of Dual Labor Markets,\u201d in Lang, K. and Leonard, J., eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.<\/p>\n

Lang, K., Leonard, J. and Lilien, D. \u201cThe Multi-Sectored Economy: An Overview,\u201d in Lang, K. and Leonard, J. eds. Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.<\/p>\n

ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wan, S., T.N. Bond, K. Lang et al, \u201cIs Fadeout a Scaling Artefact?\u201d Economics of Education Review, 82 (June 2021) .<\/p>\n

Gihleb, R. and Lang, K. \u201cEducational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased.\u201d Research in Labor Economics, 48 (2020): 1-26.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Spitzer, A. K-L. \u201cHow Bias and Discrimination Shape Outcomes,\u201d Future of Children, 30:1 (Spring 2020): 165-186.<\/p>\n

Kahn-Lang, A. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on `16
\nand Pregnant’ and Other Applications,\u201d Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 38:3 (July 2020):613-20.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Spitzer A. K-L. \u201cRace Discrimination: An Economic Perspective.\u201d Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34:2 (Spring 2020):68-89.<\/p>\n

Cavounidis, C. and Lang, K. \u201cBen-Porath meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation,\u201d Journal of Political Economy, 128:4 (April 2020): 1405-35..<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cEffort and Wages: Evidence from the Payroll Tax,\u201d Canadian Journal of Economics, 53:1 (February 2020): 108-139.<\/p>\n

Bond, T.N. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Sad Truth About Happiness Scales,\u201d Journal of Political Economy, 127:4 (August 2019): 1629-1640.<\/p>\n

Goel, D. and Lang, K. \u201cSocial Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants.\u201d Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 72:2 (August 2019): 355-81.<\/p>\n

Bond, T.N. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7,\u201d Journal of Human Resources, 53 (Fall 2018): 891-917.<\/p>\n

Li, H., Lang, K. and Leong, K. \u201cDoes Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore,\u201d Economic Journal, 128 (June 2018): 1570-1608.<\/p>\n

Bose, G. and Lang, K. \u201cMonitoring for Worker Quality,\u201d Journal of Labor Economics, 35 (July 2017): 755-85.<\/p>\n

Barua, R. and Lang, K. \u201cSchool Entry Age and Educational Attainment: A Cautionary Tale of LATE,\u201d Journal of Human Capital, 10 (Fall 2016):347-76..<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cPerspective on \u201cAgeing and the skill portfolio: Evidence from job based skill measures\u201d by Audra Bowlus, Hiroaki Mori and Chris Robinson,\u201d Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 7 (April 2016):104-6.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Weinstein, R. \u201cThe Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade,\u201d American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7 (October 2015):169-97.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cRacial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny’s, After Civil Rights,\u201d Journal of Economic Literature, 53 (June 2015): 351-9.<\/p>\n

Bond, T. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results.\u201d Review of Economics and Statistics, (December 2013): 1468-79.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Weinstein, R. \u201cThe Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results,\u201d Labour Economics, (October 2013): 230-43.<\/p>\n

Ashcraft, A., Fernandez-Val, I and Lang, K., \u201cThe Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom,\u201d Economic Journal, (September 2013): 875-905.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Lehmann, J-Y. K. \u201cRacial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics,\u201d Journal of Economic Literature, (December 2012): 959-1006.<\/p>\n

Lang, K, and Nuevo Chiquero, A., \u201cTrends in Spontaneous Abortions: 1970-2000,\u201d Demography (August 2012): 1011-36.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Siniver, E., \u201cWhy Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel,\u201d Labour Economics 18 (December 2011): 767-77.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Manove, M., \u201cEducation and Labor Market Discrimination,\u201d American Economic Review, 100 (June 2011): 1467-96.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cMeasurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member,\u201d Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (Summer 2010): 167-182.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Siniver, E., \u201cThe Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel,\u201d B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 9 (Issue 1, Topics) Article 50.<\/p>\n

Donald, S. and Lang, K., \u201cInference with Differences-in-Differences and Other Panel Data,\u201d Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (May 2007): 221-33.<\/p>\n

Lang, K., Manove, M., and Dickens, W.T., \u201cRacial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers,\u201d American Economic Review, 95 (September 2005) 1327-40.<\/p>\n

Angrist, J. and Lang, K., \u201cDoes School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston\u2019s Metco Program,\u201d American Economic Review, 94 (December 2004): 1613-34.<\/p>\n

Lang, K., \u201cComment on Sara Lemos, \u2018Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil\u2019,\u201d Economia, 5 (Fall 2004): 256-60.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Majumdar, S., \u201cThe Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications,\u201d International Economic Review 45 (November 2004): 1111-1128.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Jian, Tianlun, \u201cProperty Taxes and Property Values: Evidence from Proposition 2\u00bd,\u201d Journal of Urban Economics 55 (May 2004): 439-457.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Manove, M., \u201cWage Announcements with a Continuum of Types,\u201d Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 71-72 (July\/December 2003): 223-244.<\/p>\n

Berman, E., Lang, K. and Siniver, E., \u201cLanguage-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition,\u201d Labour Economics, 10 (June 2003): 265-290.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Rosenthal, R., \u201cBargaining Piecemeal or All at Once,\u201d Economic Journal, 111 (July 2001): 526-40.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Zagorsky, J. \u201cDoes Growing Up with An Absent Parent Really Hurt?\u201d Journal of Human Resources, 36 (Spring 2001): 253-73.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cThe Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand\u201d Journal of Labor Economics 16 (October 1998): 792-814.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Kahn, S. \u201cThe Effect of Minimum Wage Laws on the Distribution of Employment: Theory and Evidence\u201d Journal of Public Economics, 69 (July 1998): 67-82.<\/p>\n

Galizzi, M. and Lang, K. \u201cRelative Wages, Wage Growth and Quit Behavior,\u201d Journal of Labor Economics 16 (April 1998):368-91.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Zagorsky, J. \u201cWhy Are Canadian and U.S. Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated,\u201d Canadian Public Policy 24 (February 1998) S56-71.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S. and Lang, K. \u201cHours Constraints and the Wage\/Hours Locus,\u201d Canadian Journal of Economics, 29 (April 1996): S71-75.
\nLang, K. and Gordon, P. \u201cPartnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence,\u201d Rand Journal of Economics, 26 (Winter 1995): 614-29.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S. and Lang, K. \u201cSources of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada\u201d Canadian Journal of Economics, 28 (November 1995): 914-28.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cAn Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka\u201d Journal of Development Studies, 31 (April 1995): 620-36.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cDoes the Human Capital\/Educational Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy.\u201d American Economic Review, 94 (March 1994), 353-8.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cLanguage and Economists’ Theories of Discrimination,\u201d International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 103 (July\/August 1993), 165-183.<\/p>\n

DeLong, J.B. and Lang, K. \u201cAre All Economic Hypotheses False?\u201d Journal of Political Economy, 100 (Dec. 1992), 1257-72.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S. and Lang, K. \u201cConstraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific Capital,\u201d Journal of Human Resources, 27 (Fall 1992), 661-678.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates,\u201d Review of Economics and Statistics, 75 (November 1991), 605-11.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Rosenthal, R. \u201cThe Contractor’s Game,\u201d Rand Journal of Economics, 22 (Autumn 1991), 329-38.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cPersistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment,\u201d Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106 (February 1991), 181-202.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Kahn, S. \u201cEfficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View,\u201d Economic Inquiry, 28, (April 1990), 296-306.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cWhy Was There Mandatory Retirement?\u201d Journal of Public Economics, 39 (June 1989), 127-36.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T., Katz, L., Lang, K. and Summers, L.H. \u201cEmployee Crime, Monitoring and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis.\u201d Journal of Labor Economics, 7 (July 1989), 331-47.<\/p>\n

Friedberg, R., Lang, K., and Dickens, W.T. \u201cThe Changing Structure of the Female Labor Market: 1976-1984,\u201d Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1988, (1989), 117-24.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cLabor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium,\u201d Review of Economics and Statistics, 70 (August 1988): 527-30.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cJob Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply,\u201d Economic Inquiry, 26 (July 1988), 533-6.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory,\u201d American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 78 (1988), 129-34.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S. and Lang, K. \u201cEfficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems\u201d International Economic Review, 29 (1988), 157-66.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Bell, D. \u201cAn Economic Model of the Intake Dispositions of Juvenile Offenders\u201d Journal of Public Economics 32 (1987): 79-99.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cPareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws\u201d Economic Inquiry 25 (January 1987): 145-158.<\/p>\n

Kahn, S., Lang, K. and Kadev, D. \u201cNational Union Leader Performance and Turnover in Building Trades\u201d Industrial Relations 25 (Fall 1986): 276-291.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Kropp, D. \u201cHuman Capital vs. Sorting: The Effect of Compulsory Attendance Laws\u201d Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (August 1986): 609-624.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cA Language Theory of Discrimination,\u201d Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (May 1986): 363-382.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Ruud, P. \u201cReturns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials\u201d The Review of Economics and Statistics 68 (February 1986): 41-47.<\/p>\n

Bell, D. and Lang, K. \u201cThe Intake Dispositions of Juvenile Offenders\u201d Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22 (November 1985): 309-328.<\/p>\n

Dickens, W.T. and Lang, K. \u201cA Test of Dual Labor Market Theory\u201d American Economic Review 75 (September 1985): 792-805. (Reprinted in Sattinger, M., ed., Income Distribution, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, 2001.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cUnions, Firms and the Returns to Seniority\u201d Journal of Labor Research, 5 (Winter 1984): p. 81-92.<\/p>\n

Submitted<\/strong>
\nLang, K., Leong, K., Li, H. and Xu, H. \u201cBorrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks.\u201d under revision at the request of the Review of Economics and Statistics.<\/p>\n

Cavounidis, C., Lang, K. And Weinstein, R. \u201cThe Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers,\u201d under revision at the request of the Economic Journal.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. and Palacios, M. D., \u201cThe Determinants of Teachers’ Occupational Choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cavounidis, C, Dicandia, V., Lang, K., and Malhotra, R. \u201cEstimating the Nature of Technological Change: Exploiting Shifts in Skill Use Within and Between Occupations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Popular Writings<\/strong>
\nLi, H., Lang, K. and Leong, K. \u201cCompetition Alone Will Not Eliminate Discrimination,\u201d VoxEU, August 28, 2015, http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/competition-alone-will-not-eliminate-discrimination.<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cBallot Initiatives Take the Pulse of the Nation: Minimum Wage Increase,\u201d The Conversation, http:\/\/theconversation.com\/ballot-initiatives-take-the-pulse-of-the-nation-33821, November 5, 2014.<\/p>\n

Bond, T.N. and Lang, K., \u201cUsing Happiness Scales to Inform Policy: Strong Words of Caution,\u201d VoxEU, July 4, 2014, http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/using-happiness-scales-inform-policy-strong-words-caution<\/p>\n

Lang, K. \u201cAddressing the Teen Motherhood `Crisis\u2019,\u201d VoxEU, March 2, 2014, http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/addressing-teen-motherhood-crisis<\/p>\n

Lang, K., \u201cChildren Having Children: Does It Matter?\u201d Milken Institute Review, 9 (Second Quarter, 2007): 44-53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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