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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Labor Market Participation"”.
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A comparative study of rural Virginia farm and non farm household labor supply
… Virginia two-adult farm and non-farm household labor supply on two levels: (1) labor market participation and (2) variations in labor supply to the market and to the home. The study develops three models: a selection model, a wage rate model, and a labor supply model. Estimation is performed …
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FAMILY AND UNPAID CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF POPULATION AGING
… I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine the personal care needs and care arrangements of individuals 65 and older living in the United States, focusing on how life stage at migration impacts aging-related care. I find that immigrants who migrate to the …
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The Comparative Impact of Family Policies in Sweden and Japan
… ability to have a family and participate in the labor market? Drawing on two cases, Japan and Sweden, I will identify different patterns of family policies' impact on fertility rates and women's participation in the labor market. Comparing the countries of Japan and Sweden, I ask how family …
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Selectivity, Transferability of Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
… characteristics affect and determine their labor market participation, returns to education and wages in both their country of origin (before migration occurs) and in the United States. The dissertation also estimates the extent to which immigrant skills are transferable to the American …
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A haunted society: Old age pensions in Iceland from a gender perspective
… pension of social security. Although women’s labor market participation has increased, the gender pay gap, unpaid labor in homes and women’s fewer employment working hours will result in the extension of the labor market gender discrimination into old age. The research found no direct …
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Essays on Technological Change and Labor Market Dynamics: Causal Evidence from Remote Work and Automation
… investigates how technological changes reshape labor market outcomes in the United States, focusing on two transformative forces: remote work and automation. Across two empirical studies, I provide causal evidence on how these technologies influence workforce composition, labor market …
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Three Essays Considering The Labor Market Behavior Of Young Workers
… consists of three chapters investigating labor market trends, specifically of young workers (ages 18-24). In the United States, young workers decreased their labor market participation by more than 8\% from 1994-2014 and the first chapter of this research considers changing demographics …
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Employment Experiences Of Black And White Veterans With Service-Connected Disabilities
… differed for White and Black Veterans in the labor market. The research revealed typical characteristics of employment experiences, which suggest that work is completed at multiple levels, based on multiple factors and it is shaped by maintenance of historical discrimination and challenges, …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
… chapter, I investigate the effect of women's labor force participation on her involvement in household decision making. After addressing the issues of endogeneity using a fixed effects model, I find that her labor market participation significantly increases her involvement in decision making …
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Going the Distance: The Impact of Distance to Market on Smallholders Crop and Technology Choices
… cost, revenue and profit but are constrained by labor requirements, cash requirements, food security concerns, and input and output market access. Market access is directly related to distance to market. Distance to market increases the cost of inputs, increases transportation costs, and reduces …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries
… presents supporting evidence that differential labor market participation is a likely explanation for the differential allocation by gender among children: among children aged 7-17 years, labor market participation is 3.6 percentage points higher for boys than girls. The third and final chapter …
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Alcohol Use Disorders And Labor Market Outcomes: An Analysis Using 2001-02 National Epidemiology Survey On Alcohol And Related Conditions
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p><b>ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES: AN ANALYSIS USING 2001-02 NATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY SURVEY ON ALCOHOL AND RELATED CONDITIONS</b></p> <p>by</p> <p>SHAMMIMA JESMIN</p> <p>May 2010</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Allen Goodman </p> <p>Major: Economics</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of …
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
This dissertation studies labor market disparities and inequality in the United States. The focus is to investigate the determinants of gaps in various labor market outcomes over the life cycle between different demographic groups and to study whether the increased earnings inequality over the past …
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Essays on Technology Adoption, Demographics, and Development
… fast-growing economy.The first chapter, ``Casual Labor, Uncertainty, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," examines why both the technology adoption rate and labor productivity in agriculture are low in the context of developing countries. A two-stage model is built to explain how the …
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Comparative examination of maternity protection in EU and in Georgia, an analysis of the effectiveness of paid parental leave in promoting gender equality in the workplace
Protection of women's labor rights is one of the most important challenges in today's world. Discrimination based on gender is especially manifested in the physiological conditions of women, during pregnancy and childbirth, which is one of the grounds for violating their rights. The Universal …
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Hidden Consequences of Remittances: The micro impact of remittance flows in the Albanian remittance-receiving households' behavior
… focuses on the impact of remittances on labor market participation using propensity score matching. This part of the dissertation relies on the matching approach for the identification. The nearest neighbor and kernel estimators are used to obtain the matching results. Using instrumental …
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Market work and household production in Brazil
… of Brazilian women's double burden on their labor market participation by examining whether the occupational choice of Brazilian women is affected by their gender roles and whether entry into other occupations that are not identified as female occupations has become easier since the …
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The labor market consequences of motherhood in lithuania: evidence from social security data /
… income by looking at job retention, receipt of labor income, sickness and unemployment incidence, and wage adjustments. To implement my analysis, I exploit detailed Social Security data in quarterly frequency covering the period between 2000 and 2020. Using this dataset, I follow the seminal …
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Essays on disability and employment
… which examine the impact of public policy on labor market outcomes of those with disabilities. The first essay analyzes a microlending program for people with disabilities in India. People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing …
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Essays on Gender Differences in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
With women's increased education and labor market participation in the last few decades the labor market has changed considerably. At the same time the interaction between household activities and work have been constantly evolving, affecting household dynamics and family outcomes, such as …
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