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Showing 1 to 20 of 313 for “"labor force"”.
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Racial Differences in Wives' Labor Force Participation
This research examined the effects of labor market structure and early life-course events of the family on racial differences in wives' labor force participation. Previous research had been unable to identify determinants of black wives' labor force participation. Variables that have a large …
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Estimating Unemployed Entrants into the Labor Force
… the methodology currently used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate unemployed entrants into the labor force. Unemployed entrants are individuals who enter the labor force for the first time, or after an absence of a year or more. Since these individuals lack current work experience, …
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Productivity, education and changes in the labor force.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics and Social Science. Thesis. 1965. Ph.D.
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Organization and structure of the New Brunswick labor force
"This thesis is a survey of the New Brunswick labor force with an attempt to point out the major problems involved and to compare New Brunswick with the other provinces of Canada. Some solutions to these problems have been suggested using sources from abroad as well as at home."
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An Analysis of Interstate Labor Force Migration for Manpower Planning
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511640.pdf: 7705467 bytes, checksum: 3934012c00e682afa119fc8cdeb6a257 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Absenteeism prediction and labor force optimization in rail dispatcher scheduling
… to account for a loss of 3% of scheduled labor hours. This can be costly in railroad dispatcher scheduling because every absence must be filled through overtime or a qualified extra dispatcher. One factor that complicates this problem is the uncertainty of unplanned employee absences. The …
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Labor Force Participation and Crime among Serious and Violent Former Prisoners
… equation modeling is used to model men's labor force attachment, job quality, financial needs, and emotional wellbeing. Models test whether financial problems diminish the crime-reducing effects of employment for men who remain weakly attached to the labor force. Multiple indicators for …
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How Did COVID-19 Influence Women's Participation in the Labor Force?
Did women’s relationship with the paid labor force fundamentally change as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? Women, specifically women with children, were disproportionately affected by increased caregiver needs, experienced the largest margin of employment disruption, and faced difficult choices …
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Women's Response to Spousal Unemployment: Economic, Labor Force, and Family Constraints
… with the wives of steelworkers who were forced into unemployment, I explore the conditions and factors that shape women's choices in response to their husbands' job loss. Access to a unique and under-studied sample of women married to unemployed working-class men necessitates the use of …
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The Effect of Free Day Care on Women's Labor Force Participation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:05:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606813.pdf: 3970020 bytes, checksum: f1ce5ebe7ee6f17c6974ca5097d79720 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Determinants of Attitudes and Perceptions Concerning Married Women in the Labor Force
… to the increased participation of women in the labor force. This study analyzes the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS) to determine what types of individuals believe in traditional versus nontraditional sex roles for mothers. The entire sample within the 2002 GSS was analyzed as well as subsets …
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A Comparative Study of Labor Force Participation of Married Native and Immigrant Women
In recent years, studies on immigrants in the labor force have relied heavily on econometric techniques. As a result, our knowledge has increased enormously concerning the wages of immigrant men and women and the transfer payments received by immigrants. Our study adds to this body of knowledge by …
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A Study of Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility: A Cross-Cultural Approach
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913537.pdf: 7995348 bytes, checksum: d220965211307c38e1d9549043489b72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Factors Influencing Female Labor Force Participation in Urban, Rural and Kuchi Regions of Afghanistan
Female labor force participation and the factors influencing it are issues that have always attracted the attention of researchers. Given the importance of this issue, the study first examines the female labor force participation rate of Afghan women over the last few decades. Then, the study …
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Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004279.pdf: 9573634 bytes, checksum: 29c907c3f75246a7720098043fefc56a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The Prevalence of Depression and Its Impact on Employment Earnings among Canadian Labor Force Participants
… the largest health capital threats to Canada’s labor force population. It is unclear how depression prevalence has been behaving over time among the Canadian working-age population, and its impact on and co-occurrence with labor market outcomes, such as employment earnings. In this dissertation, …
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Determinants of Southern Nevada in-migration: Similarities and differences between labor force and elderly migrants
… of migrants. Migrants aged 19 to 60 years (the labor force), and migrants aged 60 and over (the elderly) comprise these two groups. Second, this single model examines both economic and non-economic factors as possible determinants of migration to Clark County. These factors include economic …
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A survey of the factors affecting the labor force participation of married women with children
Much of the recent literature on labor force participation points out that the most noticeable change in participation patterns has occured in the class of married women, with husbands present. Most of these studies also point out that the presence of children is a factor which reduces the …
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation
… literature on the growth of married women's labor force participation, has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of the growth has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. In fact, while the rapid real wage rate growth of the 1950's and 60's virtually …
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The Redistribution of The Labor Force Between The Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Sectors in Thailand
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978.
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