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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Labor Market Shocks"”.
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Essays in the Economics of Education
… switching behavior responds to major-specific labor market shocks. The second essay explores the incidence and persistence of overeducation for workers in the United States. The final essay examines the role that students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills play in their transition from …
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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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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… and time by sharing expenses and specializing labor within and outside of the home. A “paradox” arises when the budget share of food declines with household size in the consumer expenditure survey data contradicting the Barten model prediction that per capita food consumption should increase …
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Essays on the economics of labor markets
… consists of three chapters on the economics of labor markets. Each chapter explores an aspect of the distributional consequences of labor market shocks due to changes in trade, regulations, or technology. The first chapter investigates the extent to which geographic variation in wage growth …
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Microeconomic implications of trade shocks in developing countries
… and firm-level responses to trade and local labor market shocks in developing countries. The first chapter studies the effect of a trade-induced negative shock to manufacturing employment on leading causes of mortality in Mexico between 1998 and 2013. I exploit cross-municipality variation in …
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ESSAYS ON HETEROGENEOUS TREATMENT EFFECTS IN THE LABOR MARKET
… literature about how immigrants would respond to labor market shocks differently from natives, the existing literature agreed on the fact that workers who involuntarily lose their jobs experience long spells of unemployment after displacement. Fully understanding the consequences of job …
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Essays on Technology and Work
… workers to deal with a changing environment. Labor markets are in constant change. This paper documents how responses to labor-market shocks vary by individuals’ psychological traits. We construct measures of cognitive ability, extraversion, and conscientiousness using standardized personality …