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Library Publishing And Undergraduate Education: Strategies For Collaboration, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael Seeborg, Isaac Gilman Apr 2013

Library Publishing And Undergraduate Education: Strategies For Collaboration, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael Seeborg, Isaac Gilman

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Library-based publishing services are increasingly common as libraries seek to provide alternatives for the dissemination of scholarly and creative work. Connecting these services to the educational mission of libraries' institutions is vital for publishing programs' success and sustainability. This panel of librarians and faculty from liberal arts colleges will discuss the educative and advocacy roles that their library publishing programs have developed, and suggest best practices for librarians wishing to implement their own publishing programs. Isaac Gilman's slides are available via CommonKnowledge.

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Economic Assimilation Of Mexican And Chinese Immigrants In The United States: Is There Wage Convergence?, Michael Seeborg, Yujie Wu Jan 2012

Economic Assimilation Of Mexican And Chinese Immigrants In The United States: Is There Wage Convergence?, Michael Seeborg, Yujie Wu

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This research determines the economic assimilation experience of Mexican immigrants and Chinese immigrants towards natives level over time after controlling for human capital and demographic characteristics. Using Census data from multiple years, this research follows cohorts of Mexican and Chinese immigrants who migrated to the U.S. prior to 1994 to investigate the impact of assimilation on the level of earnings for these immigrants. Multiple regression and simulation techniques are used to compare the earnings growth pattern for the two immigrant groups. Results show that over time there is wage convergence for Chinese immigrants toward the native level and they do …

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Inferring Drug Use From Productivity Trends In Track And Field, Michael Seeborg, Allison Fisher Jan 2010

Inferring Drug Use From Productivity Trends In Track And Field, Michael Seeborg, Allison Fisher

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Achieving Proficiencies In Economics Capstone Courses, Michael Seeborg Feb 2008

Achieving Proficiencies In Economics Capstone Courses, Michael Seeborg

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This paper argues that capstone courses in economics should be integrative experiences that require students to demonstrate six core proficiencies. The capstone economics senior seminar at Illinois Wesleyan University is used as an example of how a capstone course that requires completion of an original research paper might achieve these proficiencies. Also, carefully designed co-curricular activities, such as student-edited undergraduate journals, and participation in undergraduate research conferences are recommended as complements to capstone research courses.

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The Effect Of Marital Status On The Standard Of Living Of Young Men And Women, Michael Seeborg Jan 2004

The Effect Of Marital Status On The Standard Of Living Of Young Men And Women, Michael Seeborg

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The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data base is used to explore the effects of changes in marital status on the standard of living of a sample of young adults. OLS regression analysis indicates that changes in marital status have very different effects on young women and young men. Women receive large increases in their income-to-needs ratios when they marry, and they incur large declines in their income-to-needs ratios after experiencing a divorce or separation. Men, on the other hand, do not experience significant changes in their income-to-needs ratios when their marital status changes.

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The Assimilation Of Immigrants Who Arrived In The United States As Children, Michael Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford Mar 2003

The Assimilation Of Immigrants Who Arrived In The United States As Children, Michael Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford

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Although there has been much research on the effects of national origin, English speaking ability and educational attainment on the assimilation of immigrants, there has been little work on the effect of age of immigration on assimilation. This paper uses 1990 Census (IPUMS) data to assess the effects of age immigration on the relative earnings performance of 30-year-old immigrant men. Earnings regressions are run for three cohorts of immigrants defined by their age of arrival and a decomposition analysis is conducted to explain earnings gaps between each of the three immigrant cohorts and a sample of nonimmigrant men. We find …

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The Effects Of Ethnic Capital And Age Of Arrival On The Standard Of Living Of Young Immigrants, Michael Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford Jan 2003

The Effects Of Ethnic Capital And Age Of Arrival On The Standard Of Living Of Young Immigrants, Michael Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford

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This paper uses a sample of 30 year old male immigrants from the 1990 Census PUMS data to explore the effects that age of arrival and ethnic capital have on the standard of living of immigrants. It finds that both time of arrival and ethnic capital effect immigrants’ standard of living through a set of interaction effects and indirect effects. In particular, immigrants who arrive as children enjoy greater returns to human capital investments than immigrants who arrive as young adults. Moreover, immigrants who arrive as children are affected less than young adult immigrants by the ethnic capital of the …

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The New Rural-Urban Labor Mobility In China: Causes And Implications, Michael Seeborg, Zhenhu Jin, Yiping Zhu Jan 2000

The New Rural-Urban Labor Mobility In China: Causes And Implications, Michael Seeborg, Zhenhu Jin, Yiping Zhu

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As the Chinese economy reforms, a huge new population of rural-urban migrants is transforming the urban labor force. This article explores some of the most important reasons for the emergence of the floating population in China. We argue that the neoclassical model alone is not adequate to explain the massive rural-urban internal migration underway in China. Instead, ideas drawn from both sociological theories of segmented markets and institutional economics are used to supplement the standard neoclassical explanation. We found that Chinese policy reforms in both rural and urban areas decreased the balkanization of labor markets and opened up employment opportunities …

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The Impact Of Youth Characteristics And Experiences On Transitions Out Of Poverty, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel Jan 1998

The Impact Of Youth Characteristics And Experiences On Transitions Out Of Poverty, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel

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Although the causes of intergenerational transitions from poverty have attracted the attention of economists and sociologists in recent years, there have been few attempts to integrate ideas from both disciplines. Using a sample of young adults who were impoverished as youth, this study explores the effects of a number of background characteristics such as early welfare dependency, substance abuse, teen parenthood and parent's educational attainment on the family income levels of young adults. It finds that many of these background variables have significant indirect influences on family income through intervening variables, especially the respondent's own educational attainment, welfare dependency, and …

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Teen Mothers And Their Educational Attainment: Some Evidence From The National Longitudinal Survey Of Youth, Michael Seeborg, Risa Kumazawa Jan 1996

Teen Mothers And Their Educational Attainment: Some Evidence From The National Longitudinal Survey Of Youth, Michael Seeborg, Risa Kumazawa

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This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of teenage motherhood on the educational attainment of young women. The results of an OLS regression with interaction terms demonstrate that the effects of teenage motherhood on education depends on the socio-economic background of the mother. Estimations show that young women from economically advantaged backgrounds sacrifice more than one year of education as a result of teenage motherhood while those from disadvantaged backgrounds sacrifice little, if any, education. Statistically significant interactions are found between teenage motherhood and several background characteristics. (J13, J24)

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Race, Poverty, And Enlistment: Some Evidence From The National Longitudinal Survey Of Youth, Michael Seeborg Jan 1994

Race, Poverty, And Enlistment: Some Evidence From The National Longitudinal Survey Of Youth, Michael Seeborg

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This paper explores the determinants of enlistment for a large sample of male youth drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Logit results indicate that the probability of enlistment is directly related to minority and poverty status while controlling for ability and a number of other socioeconomic background variables. In addition, an analysis of poverty transitions show that a very large percentage of enlistees in the early 1980s who were living in poverty at age 17 were successful in escaping poverty by 1990. An important conclusion is that the military can serve as a mechanism of upward economic mobility …

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The Impact Of Local Labor Markets On Black And White Family Structure, Michael Seeborg, Kristin Jaeger Jan 1993

The Impact Of Local Labor Markets On Black And White Family Structure, Michael Seeborg, Kristin Jaeger

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This study employs 1980 census data to determine how economic characteristics affect the incidence of female headed families in metropolitan areas. The study also attempts to determine if black family structure responds differently than white family structure to changes in the variables studied. It is found that changes in employment of men and women may have profound effects on family structure. Changes in the level of welfare support are also found to affect family structure. Black family structure is found to behave somewhat differently than white, thus lending support to Wilson's theory of the underclass.

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Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael Seeborg, Robert Leekley Jan 1993

Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael Seeborg, Robert Leekley

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Racial Differences In Adult Labor Force Transition Trends, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel Jan 1991

Racial Differences In Adult Labor Force Transition Trends, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel

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The Unemployment Rates Of Men And Women: A Transition Probability Analysis, Michael Seeborg, Larry Deboer Apr 1989

The Unemployment Rates Of Men And Women: A Transition Probability Analysis, Michael Seeborg, Larry Deboer

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Women's unemployment rates were considerably higher than men's for many years, but during the 1980s this difference has virtually disappeared. This study is the first to examine that change through an analysis of trends in the probabilities of labor force transitions- movements between employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation in the labor force. Using BLS data, the authors find that about half of the narrowing of the unemployment rate differential during the 1968-85 period was due to the increasing labor force attachment of women and the decreasing attachment of men. The other half reflects changes in men's and women's tendencies to move …

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