Faculty : Ronald L. Oaxaca

	McClelland Professor
	Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics
	Phone:	520.621.4135
	Fax:	520.621.8450
	Email:	rlo@u.arizona.edu
	Website:	http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rlo/
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 401QQ

Current Research

Professor Oaxaca is conducting research on panel data analysis of faculty salary determination. He is also engaged in research on statistical discrimination, consistent estimators of linear probability models, the effects of ability and family background on optimal schooling levels, a labor supply model of dual job holding, the production of engineering degrees in American universities, the effects of technological change on gender wage differentials, and comparative trends in gender wage differentials between Denmark and the U.S.

Recent Research Papers

• "Fixed Effects Models with Time Invariant Variables: A Theoretical Note" (with Iris Geisler), Economic Letters, vol. 80, no. 3, September 2003, 373-377.
• "Using Econometric Models for Intrafirm Equity Salary Adjustments" (with Michael R. Ransom), Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 2003, 221-249
• "Interindustry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem"(with William Horrace), Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, April 2001, 611-618.
• "Good News and Bad News: Search from Unknown Wage Offer Distributions" (with James C. Cox), Experimental Economics, Vol. 2, 2000, 197-225.

Other Selected Publications

• "Identification in Detailed Wage Decompositions" (with Michael R. Ransom), Review of Economics ans Statistics, Vol. 81, No. 1, February 1999
• "On Discrimination and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials" (with Michael R. Ransom), Journal of Econometrics, March 1994.
• "Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment and Subsequent Wage Gain," with (Ronald G. Ehrenberg), American Economic Review, December 1976.
• "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets," International Economic Review, October 1973.