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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Labor market outcomes"”.
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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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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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Three Essays on Occupational Safety and Labor Market Outcomes
… injuries as well as the indirect effect on labor market outcomes and firm dynamics.</p> <p>Chapter 1 examines the effect of workplace inspections on workplace safety, product quality, and worker productivity in nursing facilities. The identification strategy exploits the nationwide …
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Immigrant Communities, Human Capital Externalities And Labor Market Outcomes
The three essays that encompass this dissertation contribute to our understanding of the economic impact of ethnic communities on immigrants while also addressing issues associated with the identification and measurement of ethnic enclaves. Immigrant enclaves provide access to ethnic goods and …
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Effects of Contingent Employment History on Labor Market Outcomes
… contingent employment history on an individual's labor market outcomes (i.e., perceived dispositions, perceived qualifications, number and type of employment opportunities, task assignment, and wages). Hypotheses regarding the effects of employment history, strength of stereotypes toward …
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Essays on education and labor market outcomes in Indonesia
Education and labor market outcomes are closely interlinked; the extent to which to they are interdependent in a developing country context, like Indonesia, is the subject of this dissertation. I first query the long-run effects of education on labor market and other related outcomes and on the …
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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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Impact of Occupational Flexibility on Labor Market Outcomes of Women Following Childbirth
… influence the effects of childbirth on women’s labor market outcomes and (2) measure the parental gender gap and decompose the gap for high and low flexibility occupations. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and occupational flexibility characteristics from the O*NET database, we …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
<p>Chapter 1</p> <p>While there has been a tremendous amount of literature on how Unemployment Insurance (UI) affects unemployed workers' job search behavior, there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, …
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Social Networks and Individual Labor Market Outcomes - Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Panel Data
… indirect effects of professional ties on various labor market outcomes, such as job finding probabilities, wages, job stability, and upward mobility. Following recent trends in the measurement of network effects, the empirical work takes a relatively novel approach to quantify the economic …
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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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Education and labor market outcomes in South Africa: evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study
… importance of education in the determination of labor market outcomes. Using data from South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study, this thesis explores this relationship. It does this firstly, by examining the effect of school quality measured by school inputs-pupil-teacher ratio and …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Employment, Benefit Takeup and Other Labor Market Outcomes
… on employment, benefit takeup and other labor market outcomes. Chapter one studies the short run employment effect of unemployment insurance policies in the United States by examining how the variations in average benefits, taxes, or subsidies per worker at major industry level in a …
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Essays On Labor Economics: Human Capital Risk And Labor Market Outcomes And Learning By Doing In Medicine
… in unemployment durations and reemployment outcomes for workers coming from different occupations. I argue that this variation can be explained by differences in occupational employment risk, arising from two sources: (1) the diversification of occupational employment across industries; and …
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Heterogenous Trajectories Of Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence To Young Adulthood: Non-Cognitive Risk Factors And Labor Market Outcomes
… and contextualizing them using impactful labor market outcomes. Latent growth mixture modeling (GMM) was used to assess and classify depressive symptom change trajectories using four occasions of measurement from 1994 to 2008. The study used the public-use dataset from the National Study …
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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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Effects of Trade and FDI Policies: Evidence from the U.S. and China
… empirical essays in international trade and labor economics. The first and second essays develop empirical methodologies to investigate the distributional effect of globalization on labor market outcomes in the United States and China, respectively. The first essay studies the effect of …
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Three essays on public policy in Latin America: labor markets, education, and measurement
… how public policies in Latin America affect labor market outcomes, educational choices, and ways to improve policy evaluation methods.
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