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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Economics, Labor"”.
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Temporary Employment Agencies in Ontario: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women
Informed by the feminist political economy perspective (FPE), this study examines the experiences of recent South Asian immigrant women working through temporary employment agencies in Ontario, paying particular attention to how social factors such as gender, race and immigrant status shape these …
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The economics of dual job holding
… about dual job holding. While most studies in labor economics assume that each person holds only one job, a significant part of the work force holds two jobs simultaneously. The first part of the dissertation empirically analyzes the determinants of wages for dual jobholders, with an emphasis …
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Three Essays on Compensation
… the role of spousal coverage in determining labor market outcomes. Specifically, I utilize an instrumental variable model to control for the endogeneity of a husband's insurance coverage to his wife's decision to enter the labor force or sort into part-time jobs. Contrary to previous research …
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Quality, Cost, and Access Issues in Nursing Home Care
Third, this paper also provides a theoretical explanation of the observed pattern in the nursing home industry that non-profit institutions serve a lower percentage of Medicaid patients than do for-profit facilities. This paper shows that information disparities regarding quality between providers …
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Robust Estimation of the Cross-Sections of United States Wages and Stock Returns
The purpose of the study of the cross-section of U.S. stock returns is to examine how the relationship between returns and a conventional measure of risk differs across the conditional distribution of returns. The conditional quartile functions show that the relationship is not constant across the …
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Three Essays Exploring Heterogeneity Using Quantile Regression
… regression in several different areas in labor economics. Quantile regression calculates different estimates of the relationship between two variables at different points on the conditional distribution and, therefore, allows heterogeneity in these relationships to be explored. The first …
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Three Essays on Worker Displacement
Chapter 1 examines the effect of job displacement on the distribution of earnings. I utilize a novel technique, quantile fixed effect regression, in order to examine how the overall distribution of earnings changes while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in worker quality. I find that while …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
"This dissertation addresses the determinants of labor mobility, its impact in human capital accumulation, and the role played by human capital accumulation in the income distribution. Each topic is analyzed using different case studies: the first one is answered using personnel records from a …
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Transfers Within the Family: Evidence for the United States, Mexico and Burkina Faso
The third chapter examines the link between intrahousehold bargaining power and inter-vivos transfers for households in Burkina Faso. It presents a new measure of bargaining power based on the residual from a regression of bride price on detailed characteristics of the wife's family. This residual …
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Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
The third essay (coauthored by Kevin F. Hallock) investigates the relationship between job loss announcements and top-management changes in U.S. firms using detailed data on each published job loss announcement in a broad set of large firms from 1970 to 1995. We begin by confirming the results of …
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
"It is widely believed that the U.S. has entered a period of widespread corporate ""downsizing"" in which firms lay off workers---often well-educated workers with high tenure---to an extent far greater than in the past. Recent empirical studies have lent some support to this belief. I argue that …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Immigration to the United States
"Finally, the time series properties of some migration flows to the U.S. during the 20th century are investigated. The inertial component of migration, associated with the ""friends and relatives effect"" is connected to the hypothesis of unit root. Given the series idiosyncrasies, the performances …
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A Comparison of Promotional Decisions for Employees With One or Multiple Positions in the Firm Using a Learning Approach
The paper is able to empirically uphold the following three theoretical predictions. First, newly hired employees are more likely to be promoted than incumbents are. Second, the length of time until a promotion is shorter for new hires than incumbents. Third, incumbents receive more favorable job …
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Long -Term Agency Relationships and Human Capital Investment
The second part looks into situations where agents working in a team environment. The contract offers agents with a possibility of promotional prize, a fraction of an agent's own output and a share scheme of the firm's total output. Agents may allocate efforts into working on his own task …
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Participation of Students in Cooperative Education Programs: A Comparison of Students With and Without Disabilities
… openings available to students in the general labor market subsequent to the training they received through their cooperative program. Further, the study found significant relationships between student characteristics (e.g., gender, ethnicity and geographical location) and the types of …
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The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Force Participation in The Province of Quebec (Canada)
… minimum wage rate changes on the employment and labor force participation ratios of eight age-sex demographic cohorts in the Province of Quebec over the period 1966-1981. Age classes include teenagers, young adults, adults and older individuals. The theoretical model largely builds along …
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Federal-Sector Labor Relations and the Political Activities of Three Federal-Employee Unions
The importance of political action to public-employee unions has long been recognized by industrial-relations researchers. However, few researchers have attempted to examine public-employee union political action. The gap in the literature has been particularly significant at the Federal level. The …
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Intersectoral Labor Mobility and Earnings Differentials in Urban Labor Markets: A Case Study of Slum Dwellers in Bangkok (Formal Sector, Informal Sector, Rural-Urban Migration; Thailand)
This study investigates the slum dwellers' labor market behavior and the outcomes of the labor market processes in Bangkok. The study assumes the dualistic structure of the labor market in which labor mobility takes place. In less developed countries, rural-urban migration is viewed to contribute …
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A Typology and Some Determinants of Shop Steward Modes of Role Behavior
A paucity of research exists on American shop steward behaviors and attitudes. In an attempt to add to our knowledge, this study develops an instrument to measure steward modes of behavior. Five categories of the steward role behavior construct are examined: radical, erratic, cooperative, passive, …
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The Estimation of Household Production Functions: An Improved Way to Examine Production in the Nonmarket Sector
In the economic literature, two schools of thought about the behavior of households have emerged. The premise of the first group is that people behave rationally and entirely according to economic principles. The second school of thought holds that (1) rationality involves a careful consideration …
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