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Essays In Labor Economics
This dissertation consists of two papers. In the first paper, I study the employment and welfare effects of short-time work in Germany during the recession between 2008 and 2010. Short-time work is a government program that subsidizes part-time work during economic downturns. Using administrative …
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Essays in Labor Economics
<p>This dissertation presents two essays in labor economics. In the first essay, I study employer learning in a labor market with dynamic statistical discrimination on the basis of time-varying worker characteristics such as marital status. In the second essay, I explore the relationship between …
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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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Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two distinct issues in the field of labor economics: the labor supply of new mothers and firms' adjustments to changing labor costs. In both cases, I study the effect of labor market policies, both because they provide quasi-exogenous variation in otherwise endogenous variables of …
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Essays in Labor Economics
This thesis consists of four chapters on the economics of labor markets. The f irst, joint with Fidan Ana Kurtulus, evaluates the employment effects of the Japanese trade shock of the 1960s-1980s, and whether they were racially disparate. Most importantly, we test whether differential occupational …
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Essays in labor economics
I addressed three questions in Labor Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental variation to determine causality. In the first chapter, I ask whether playing longer in the NFL increases mortality in retirement. I compared players with very short careers with those with long careers. I …
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Essays in labor economics
… barriers on the relative demand for skilled labor. The Interstate Highway System was designed to connect major cities, to serve national defense, and to connect the US to Canada and Mexico. As an unintended consequence, many rural counties were connected to the highway system. I find that …
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Essays in labor economics
… consists of three chapters on topics in labor economics. In the first chapter, I present a model in which firms under-invest in hiring novice workers because they don't receive the full benefit of discovering novice talent. A firm must pay a cost to hire a novice worker. When it does, it …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
<p>This dissertation studies two topics in labor economics: the distribution of earnings and the effect of social networks on starting wage. </p><p>Chapter 1, co-authored with Professor Hugo Jales, evaluates theoretical models of the distribution of earnings. The shape of the distribution of …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of three essays in empirical labor economics. All essays analyze current issues in European labor markets. The first chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of labor-market evolutions in towns and rural areas from 1970 onwards. Data on the four most populous European …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of three essays in empirical labor economics. The first chapter examines the effects of easing access to permanent residency (PR) on the labor market outcomes of highly skilled immigrants in Canada. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity (FRD) design around the introduction of …
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Three Essays on Labor Economics
… and physical appearances on (individual) labor market outcomes. The first essay, entitled "Physical Attractiveness and Earnings: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey", examines how individual earnings in the long-run can be affected by adolescent physical attractiveness endowment across …
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Essays on Empirical Labor Economics
Three studies on labor economics are the subject of this work. The first one investigates the effect of firm size on wages using quantile regression. Empirical evidence shows that larger firms pay higher wages than smaller ones. This wage premium is called the firm size wage effect. In this study, …
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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 on labor economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Three essays in labor economics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Three essays in labor economics
… chapters that discuss issues regarding the U.S. labor market. The first chapter investigates how establishments adjust their production on various margins when wage rates rise. Exploiting state-by-year variation in minimum wage laws, I analyze U.S. manufacturing plants’ responses over a 23-year …
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Three essays in labor economics
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.
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Essays in macro-labor economics
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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