Journal Article
Jobless recoveries: causes and consequences
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Liu, Yang (2011-04)
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr , Pages 18-19

Journal Article
The gender wage gap
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Liu, Yang (2011)
The actual gender wage disparity (which compares the wages of male and female workers with similar labor-force characteristics) is lower than the raw gender earnings gap.
Economic Synopses

Journal Article
Gender wage gap may be much smaller than most think
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Liu, Yang (2011-10)
The Regional Economist , Issue Oct , Pages 14-15

Journal Article
Revised data show that district gained, not lost, jobs in 2010
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Liu, Yang (2011-10)
The Regional Economist , Issue Oct , Pages 20-21

Journal Article
From community college to a bachelor's degree and beyond: How smooth is the road?
Kolesnikova, Natalia A. (2009-07)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul , Pages 10-11

Working Paper
African-American economic progress in urban areas: a tale of 14 American cities
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Taylor, Lowell J.; Black, Dan A. (2010)
How significant was the economic progress of African-Americans in the U.S. between 1970 and 2000? In this paper we examine this issue for black men 25-55 years old who live in 14 large U.S. metropolitan areas. We present the evidence that significant racial disparities remain in education and labor market outcomes of black and white men. We discuss changes in industrial composition, migration, and demographic changes that might have contributed to the stagnation of economic progress of black men between 1970 and 2000. In addition, we show that there was no progress in a financial well-being ...
Working Papers , Paper 2010-015

Working Paper
The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity
Sanders, Seth G.; Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Taylor, Lowell J.; Black, Dan A. (2009)
A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual's log wage is specified to be a function of education, experience, and an indicator variable identifying race. Researchers hope that estimates from this exercise can be informative about the impact of minority status on labor market success. Here we set out a theoretical justification for this regression in a context in which individuals live and work in different locations. Our model leads to the traditional approach, but with the important caveat that the regression should ...
Working Papers , Paper 2009-043

Journal Article
The return to education isn't calculated easily
Kolesnikova, Natalia A. (2010-01)
Most studies estimate that the return to each year of education is about 10 percent. But calculating the financial gain is not a cut-and-dried process. Even more difficult is calculating the nonmonetary return.
The Regional Economist , Issue Jan , Pages 12-13

Working Paper
Are children 'normal'?
Sanders, Seth G.; Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Taylor, Lowell J.; Black, Dan A. (2009)
In his classic work on the economics of fertility, Becker (1960) suggests that children are likely ?normal.? We examine this contention. Our first step is documenting an empirical regularity about the cross section of white married couples in the U.S.: when we restrict comparisons to households living in broadly similar locations (e.g., in expensive urban areas, or in rural areas), completed fertility is positively correlated with the husband?s income. Two alternative models rationalize the data?one in which children are ?normal? and a second in which the observed pattern emerges solely as a ...
Working Papers , Paper 2008-040

Journal Article
The economic progress of African Americans in urban areas: a tale of 14 cities
Kolesnikova, Natalia A.; Taylor, Lowell J.; Black, Dan A. (2010-09)
How significant was the economic progress of African Americans in the United States between 1970 and 2000? In this paper the authors examine this issue for black men 25 to 55 years of age who live in 14 large U.S. metropolitan areas. They present the evidence that significant racial disparities remain in education and labor market outcomes of black and white men, and they discuss changes in industrial composition, migration, and demography that might have contributed to the stagnation of economic progress of black men between 1970 and 2000. In addition, the authors show that there was no ...
Review , Volume 92 , Issue Sep , Pages 353-379