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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Labor Force Participation"”.
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Racial Differences in Wives' Labor Force Participation
This research examined the effects of labor market structure and early life-course events of the family on racial differences in wives' labor force participation. Previous research had been unable to identify determinants of black wives' labor force participation. Variables that have a large …
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Labor Force Participation and Crime among Serious and Violent Former Prisoners
… equation modeling is used to model men's labor force attachment, job quality, financial needs, and emotional wellbeing. Models test whether financial problems diminish the crime-reducing effects of employment for men who remain weakly attached to the labor force. Multiple indicators for …
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The Effect of Free Day Care on Women's Labor Force Participation
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A Comparative Study of Labor Force Participation of Married Native and Immigrant Women
In recent years, studies on immigrants in the labor force have relied heavily on econometric techniques. As a result, our knowledge has increased enormously concerning the wages of immigrant men and women and the transfer payments received by immigrants. Our study adds to this body of knowledge by …
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A Study of Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility: A Cross-Cultural Approach
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Factors Influencing Female Labor Force Participation in Urban, Rural and Kuchi Regions of Afghanistan
Female labor force participation and the factors influencing it are issues that have always attracted the attention of researchers. Given the importance of this issue, the study first examines the female labor force participation rate of Afghan women over the last few decades. Then, the study …
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Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing
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A survey of the factors affecting the labor force participation of married women with children
Much of the recent literature on labor force participation points out that the most noticeable change in participation patterns has occured in the class of married women, with husbands present. Most of these studies also point out that the presence of children is a factor which reduces the …
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation
… literature on the growth of married women's labor force participation, has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of the growth has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. In fact, while the rapid real wage rate growth of the 1950's and 60's virtually …
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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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Marriage, motherhood, childcare arrangements and work: female labor force participation and informal employment under Chinese economic reform
… course, and how they impact on Chinese women’s participation in the labor force and involvement in the informal economy—jobs marked by long working hours, low wages, and little benefits. China experiences rapid economic growth and institutional re-structuring in the market transition where the …
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Some Aspects of the Relationship Between the Labor Force Participation Ofwomen and Changes in Household Technology, 1920-1960
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Essays in population and family economics
… Finally, the third chapter evaluates the labor market effects of public subsidies to families with children. Using variation in the level of benefits provided by a policy reform in the UK that affected differentially what would otherwise be comparable groups of families, I estimate the …
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Women's Gender Role Attitudes: Association of Demographic Characteristics, Work Related Factors, and Life Satisfaction
… attitudes. Four work related variables (labor force participation, hours worked at one's paid position, personal income, and earnings as percent of total family income) were hypothesized to relate to non-traditional gender role attitudes. Job dissatisfaction was hypothesized to relate to …
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… those with young children, into the paid labor force. Concurrently, adults across the country have steadily moved away from organized religion. Nonetheless, sociological research has documented relationships between affiliation with conservative religious groups and negative attitudes …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes. The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of three chapters in the area of labor economics. My first chapter looks into the puzzling decline in U.S. women's labor force participation after 2000. The second chapter examines the cross-border spillover effects of increases in state minimum wages. The third chapter studies …
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Labor Market Dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region
… consists of three manuscripts analyzing labor market dynamics in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region. The first manuscript examines the dynamic effects of national, regional, and local labor market shocks on labor force participation rates in Appalachia. A dynamic factor model with …
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Uncertainty and the effects of a pay-as-you-go social security program on economic growth
… are used, namely, production uncertainty and labor force participation. In the first part of this paper recent arguments over how social security affects individual savings are presented and evaluated. Conclusions are made that Feldstein's tax and benefit effects represent the dominant …
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