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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Current Population Survey"”.
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
… over time. Using data from both the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Outgoing Rotation Group files of the CPS, I find a narrowing of the gender wage gap over time. Furthermore there is a great deal of heterogeneity across quantiles of the conditional wage distribution of wages …
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Essays on disability and employment
… laws and data from twenty years of the March Current Population Survey to determine the short and longer term impact of the ADA on labor market outcomes of people with disabilities. The estimates suggest that the ADA led to a short-term decline in weeks worked and labor force participation of …
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Connected by Underground Wires
… and social disadvantages. Taking data from Current Population Survey, I examine how internet behavior, speed and frequency predict weekly earnings and occupational prestige. Those with greater variety in internet behavior, faster connection speed, and higher internet frequency are predicted …
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
… Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the County Business Patterns, I find that incorporated businesses that operate in a location where similar businesses are clustered together have a significantly higher chance of survival. However, the effect of location …
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Estimating Unemployed Entrants into the Labor Force
This paper examines the methodology currently used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate unemployed entrants into the labor force. Unemployed entrants are individuals who enter the labor force for the first time, or after an absence of a year or more. Since these individuals lack current …
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Returns to education in the Nevada hotel industry: Incentives for education in Nevada
… categories were constructed using data from the Current Population Survey: the Las Vegas hotel industry, the hotel industry elsewhere in Nevada, all other industries in Las Vegas, and all other industries elsewhere in Nevada. Results indicate that there is a lack of a significant wage penalty for …
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Crossing educational borders : the effects of state financial aid on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education
Currently there are twenty-two states (and the District of Columbia) that offer in-state resident tuition (ISRT) rates to undocumented youth who meet set residential criteria. As of January 2019, ten states (and the District of Columbia) have passed legislation allowing undocumented students to …
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Essays on Inequalities in Labor and Health
<p>Chapter 1. Using the Current Population Survey, 2020, this study examines the gender disparities in individual employment status during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the economic lockdown and social distancing measures, women may have been affected differently from men in the labor market. …
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
… from the Displaced Worker Supplement to the Current Population Survey. I find that in the early years of the sample, workers who are more likely to be party to Lazear contracts are less likely to be laid off. By the end of the sample this is no longer the case. This is consistent with the …
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How Many Americans Work Remotely? A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues
… we field a new, nationallyrepresentative survey: the Remote Life Survey (RLS). We find that in October 2020, 31.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce always worked from home (WFH) and 21.9 percent sometimes or rarely WFH, totaling 53.5 percent. We compare our results with …
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The Effect of the Decline in Occupational Segregation on Sex Differences in Earnings Among Professional and Technical Workers: 1971-1981
… data from the Annual Demographic Files of the Current Population Survey for 1972 and 1982. Contrary to expectations, the results indicate that the portion of the earnings differential that is attributed to occupational segregation actually increased over this decade. Detailed decomposition …
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Labor Market Adjustments Under Economic Shocks: Evidence from the U.S.
… on panel data from online job postings, the Current Population Survey, and trade exposure measures, the analysis provides empirical evidence on how firms adjust hiring criteria in response to disruptions in labor supply, market conditions, and global trade. The first chapter shows that, in …
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Three essays on the effects of health insurance and taxation policies
… by year policy variation and individual level survey data to provide the effectiveness and efficiency cost analysis of these policies.</p> <p>My first chapter presents new empirical evidence on the impact of tax subsidies for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) on group insurance coverage. HSAs are …
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Population Churn: The Migration Flow Of Florida
… and net migration, this thesis will examine the population churn, the sum of in- and out-migration divided by population size. The simple descriptive questions in this thesis are, first, how do Orange County and the Orlando metro area "stack up" against other Florida cities, counties, and metro …
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Making Good Citizens: Policy Approaches to Increasing Civic Participation
… various in-school supports. Using data from the Current Population Survey and Florida Voter Files and multiple methods for causal inference, I (with my coauthor listed below) show that preregistration mobilizes and does so for a diverse set of citizens. Finally, Chapter 4 examines the impact of …
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Essays on Paid Sick Leave in the United States
… over time in the U.S. I use May 2004 - June 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) basic monthly data, and by taking a Difference-in-Differences approach, I find that the local mandates significantly reduce private sector employees' monthly job turnover. This study is, to the best of my knowledge, …
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Essays on Economic Policy: Income Inequality and Health Insurance
… tests of the model using data from the March Current Population Survey and NBER's TAXSIM model suggest that higher taxes on wage income are associated with higher levels of income inequality. A high degree of correlation among the average marginal tax rates prevents us from drawing inferences …
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On the causes and consequences of occupational mobility
… mobility has spuriously risen in the monthly Current Population Survey. I then study the consequences of occupational mobility using a high quality 2% sample of the German Social Security Data to study how wages change around occupation and employer transitions. The results are consistent with …
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Essays in the economics of education
… I use the Beginning Postsecondary Students survey, which allows me to control for exposure to racial diversity prior to college. Moreover, I use two techniques from Altonji, Elder, and Taber (2005) to address the issue of selection on unobservables. Single-equation estimates suggest a …
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National and state policies and the prevalence of adult obesity: A 30 year trend analysis in the United States
… obesity stems from the recognition that the population’s well-being is vital to a nation’s well-being by decreasing mortality, morbidity, reducing incidence of chronic diseases, and financial burdens on healthcare systems. Most of the existing literature on the effect of nutritional and …
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