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Showing 1 to 20 of 707 for “"Labor Market"”.
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Labor market performance and heterogeneity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Economics, 2004.
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Women, Fertility and Labor Market
… female's fertility decisions as well as female labor force participation. This research contains two major parts related to women: first, the impact of State Children Health Insurance (SCHIP) on female's fertility decision is examined. In 1997, Congress enacted the State Children's Health …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
<p>People live and work in local markets spatially distinct from one another, yet space is absent from most economic models of the national labor market. Workers choose the markets in which they will participate, but there are costs to mobility. Furthermore, cities are heterogeneous in a number of …
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Essays on Labor Market Institutions
… three papers about the impacts of different labor market institutions. In the first chapter (joint with Sean Wang), we study the effect of private-sector unionization on establishment employment and survival. Specifically, we analyze National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) union elections from …
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Immigration and the labor market
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Aging and the labor market
… analyzing the interplay between aging and the labor market. The first chapter demonstrates that differential treatment by age exists in labor markets and explores different possible explanations for this differential treatment. As the baby boom cohort reaches retirement age, demographic …
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Labor market rigidities and unemployment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Learning in the labor market
… essays that study the implication of learning on labor mobility, labor supply, wage distribution, wage dynamics, and allocations of workers under different assumptions about the nature of employer learning. The first essay develops a model of job mobility and wage dispersion under the assumption …
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Essays on labor market inequality
… thesis consists of three chapters on aspects of labor market inequality. In chapter 1, I estimate the dynamic effects of federal affirmative action regulation, exploiting variation in the timing of regulation and deregulation across work establishments. I find that affirmative action sharply …
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Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
… first chapter contains an empirical analysis of labor market outcomes. Using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages microdata, individual labor market experiences are tracked over time. Not only is the employment relationship unstable, but the instability is concentrated among a subset of …
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Artificial Intelligence in Labor Market Matching
… dissertation I study three applications of AI in labor market matching. In my first chapter I show that AI-improved but not entirely written resumes make workers more likely to be hired with no negative downstream implications to employers or to match quality. However, in my second chapter I show …
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Essays on the teacher labor market
… presents three empirical essays on the teacher labor market. Chapter one exploits the exogenous variation in teacher pay arising from state-mandated pay increases to identify the causal effect of teacher pay on teacher qualifications. Results suggest that, while state-mandated increases do raise …
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The labor market for young men
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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In and out of the labor market : disability, old age, gender and the functioning of the labor market
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Essays on Labor Market Frictions and Institutions
… between unemployment insurance policies and labor market dynamics in a macroeconomic context. The first chapter examines government commitment and its role in shaping the dynamics of optimal UI over the business cycle. The second chapter proposes a quantitative theory featuring …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
… issues at the intersection of globalization, labor market, and productivity in developing countries. It is composed of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 studies how a country's trade policy affects competition in its domestic labor market. In a heterogeneous-firm model with oligopsonistic local …
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Space and networks in the labor market
… which produces agglomeration economies, i.e., labor market pooling. According to economic theory, advantages are created between geographically clustered, same-industry firms on the demand side, and local workers with industry-specific skills on the supply side. These advantages result in …
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The internal labor market of professional football
… study explored the possibility of an internal labor market for head coaches of the National Football League (NFL). Subjects were those people who were the head coaches of NFL teams for the years 1970 to 1975 and 1980 to 1985. Following theoretical guidelines, the subjects were tested for …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… dissertation consists of two essays on the labor market impact of agglomeration economies and that of homeownership. The empirical analyses use different U.S. data and econometric techniques to examine the impact on different labor market outcomes such as volatility of hours worked and men's …
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