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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"population survey"”.
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Characteristics of Wetlands Used by Breeding Diving Ducks in Eastern South Dakota
<p>Two extensive roadside surveys were conducted along 29 east-west transect routes in 1 995 to determine the distribution and habitats of diving ducks in eastern South Dakota. Redheads (Aythya americana) and ruddy ducks (Oxyurajamaicensis) were the primary breeding species of diving ducks in …
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HIV prevalence estimates and their use in regression models: cautionary evidence from Zimbabwe and studies of the relationship between armed conflict and HIV
… antenatal clinics (sometimes supplemented by population survey data) are translated into adult HIV prevalence estimates.
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
… time. Using data from both the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Outgoing Rotation Group files of the CPS, I find a narrowing of the gender wage gap over time. Furthermore there is a great deal of heterogeneity across quantiles of the conditional wage distribution of wages by …
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Essays on disability and employment
… and data from twenty years of the March Current Population Survey to determine the short and longer term impact of the ADA on labor market outcomes of people with disabilities. The estimates suggest that the ADA led to a short-term decline in weeks worked and labor force participation of those …
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Connected by Underground Wires
… social disadvantages. Taking data from Current Population Survey, I examine how internet behavior, speed and frequency predict weekly earnings and occupational prestige. Those with greater variety in internet behavior, faster connection speed, and higher internet frequency are predicted to have …
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
… Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the County Business Patterns, I find that incorporated businesses that operate in a location where similar businesses are clustered together have a significantly higher chance of survival. However, the effect of location …
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Estimating Unemployed Entrants into the Labor Force
… system. According to the national Current Population Survey, unemployed entrants make up approximately 40 percent of the total unemployed. The estimation of unemployed entrants is a crucial step in the development of unemployment estimates at the labor market level. This paper demonstrates …
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Returns to education in the Nevada hotel industry: Incentives for education in Nevada
… were constructed using data from the Current Population Survey: the Las Vegas hotel industry, the hotel industry elsewhere in Nevada, all other industries in Las Vegas, and all other industries elsewhere in Nevada. Results indicate that there is a lack of a significant wage penalty for less …
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Crossing educational borders : the effects of state financial aid on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education
… have on college enrollment. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups (MORG) data from 1998-2017, I exploit the time variation in the passage of the laws to evaluate the effects of state financial aid has on undocumented students' decision to attend college. In …
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Essays on Inequalities in Labor and Health
<p>Chapter 1. Using the Current Population Survey, 2020, this study examines the gender disparities in individual employment status during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the economic lockdown and social distancing measures, women may have been affected differently from men in the labor market. …
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
… the Displaced Worker Supplement to the Current Population Survey. I find that in the early years of the sample, workers who are more likely to be party to Lazear contracts are less likely to be laid off. By the end of the sample this is no longer the case. This is consistent with the claim that …
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How Many Americans Work Remotely? A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues
… we field a new, nationallyrepresentative survey: the Remote Life Survey (RLS). We find that in October 2020, 31.6 percent of the continuously employed workforce always worked from home (WFH) and 21.9 percent sometimes or rarely WFH, totaling 53.5 percent. We compare our results with …
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Wage Growth and Worker Observability
… from the March 2009 Supplement of the Consumer Population Survey merged with additional industry data gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The coefficient of worker experience interacted with various measures of worker observability is used to provide an indication of the importance of …
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The Effect of the Decline in Occupational Segregation on Sex Differences in Earnings Among Professional and Technical Workers: 1971-1981
… from the Annual Demographic Files of the Current Population Survey for 1972 and 1982. Contrary to expectations, the results indicate that the portion of the earnings differential that is attributed to occupational segregation actually increased over this decade. Detailed decomposition analyses …
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
Bees (Anthophila) are experiencing global decline as part of what is being called the Anthropocene extinction. In addition to the drivers of this event, such as climate change, bees are experiencing synergistic challenges from pesticides, poor nutrition, pathogens, and parasites. Bees play a …
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Labor Market Adjustments Under Economic Shocks: Evidence from the U.S.
… panel data from online job postings, the Current Population Survey, and trade exposure measures, the analysis provides empirical evidence on how firms adjust hiring criteria in response to disruptions in labor supply, market conditions, and global trade. The first chapter shows that, in contrast …
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Use of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Technologies to Describe Mosquito Population Dynamics in the Ray Roberts Greenbelt, Denton County, Texas
A population survey was conducted from April through September 2002 on mosquito species occurring on the Ray Roberts Greenbelt, a riparian corridor used for public recreation on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, in Denton County, Texas. ArcGIS software was used to set up a stratified random …
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Intentions to engage in a meat-reduced diet: an application of the integrative model of behavioural prediction
… to identify the salient beliefs present in the population, and secondly by conducting a population survey to quantify the cognitive foundation of this behaviour. The empirical results showed that the areas of cognition which most strongly predict whether one intends to engage in an MRD were …
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Three essays on the effects of health insurance and taxation policies
… by year policy variation and individual level survey data to provide the effectiveness and efficiency cost analysis of these policies.</p> <p>My first chapter presents new empirical evidence on the impact of tax subsidies for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) on group insurance coverage. HSAs are …
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