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Kenneth Troske

University of Kentucky
Verified email at g.uky.edu
Cited by 8146

Workers, wages, and technology

M Doms, T Dunne, KR Troske - The quarterly journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
This paper documents how plant-level wages, occupational mix, workforce education, and
productivity vary with the adoption and use of new factory automation technologies such as …

Wages, productivity, and worker characteristics: Evidence from plant-level production functions and wage equations

…, D Neumark, KR Troske - Journal of labor …, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
We use a unique new data set that combines data on individual workers and their employers
to estimate marginal productivity differentials among different types of workers. We then …

Evidence on the employer size-wage premium from worker-establishment matched data

KR Troske - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999 - direct.mit.edu
In spite of the large and growing importance of the employer size-wage premium, previous
attempts to account for this premium using observable worker or employer characteristics …

New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employee-employer data

…, J Hellerstein, D Neumark, K Troske - Journal of labor …, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
We use new matched employer‐employee data to estimate the contributions of sex segregation
and wage differences by sex within occupation, industry, establishment, and occupation‐…

Wage and productivity dispersion in United States manufacturing: The role of computer investment

…, L Foster, J Haltiwanger, KR Troske - Journal of Labor …, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
Using establishment‐level data, we shed light on the sources of the changes in the structure
of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over recent decades. Our …

The labor-market returns to community college degrees, diplomas, and certificates

C Jepsen, K Troske, P Coomes - Journal of Labor …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article provides one of the first rigorous estimations of the labor-market returns to
community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimations of the returns to the more …

Market forces and sex discrimination

JK Hellerstein, D Neumark, KR Troske - 1997 - nber.org
We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive
market forces act to reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and …

On measuring segregation in samples with small units

WJ Carrington, KR Troske - Journal of Business & Economic …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Standard indexes of segregation measure a sample's distance from evenness, which occurs
when each sample unit (eg, an occupation) has the population share of both the minority …

Sex segregation in US manufacturing

WJ Carrington, KR Troske - ILR Review, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
… 4See Troske (forthcoming) for a more complete description of the WECD's development.
5This is strictly true … These unique plants tend to be larger than average (Troske, forthcoming). …

Gender segregation in small firms

WJ Carrington, KR Troske - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
This paper studies interfirm gender segregation in a unique sample of small employers. We
find that interfirm segregation is prevalent among small employers, as men and women …