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Essays On Inequality And Paid Family Leave, Jayati Chakraborty
Essays On Inequality And Paid Family Leave, Jayati Chakraborty
Theses and Dissertations
In my dissertation, I have dedicated two chapters to the field of labor economics, specifically exploring the subject of gender-based inequality in the Indian labor market and the differential impact of paid family leave policies based on socio-economic status within the labor market of the United States. The first chapter analyzes the gender-based wage gap in India by utilizing data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) for two-time frames (2004-05 and 2011-12) when labor force participation was stagnant. Employing the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, the study reveals a noteworthy decline in the gender-based log wage gap (from 0.64 to 0.48) …
Business Cycles, Exchange Rates, And Commodity Prices In Transition Economies, Salome Giorgadze
Business Cycles, Exchange Rates, And Commodity Prices In Transition Economies, Salome Giorgadze
Theses and Dissertations
My dissertation studies macroeconomic connectedness in the transition economies through the business cycle and exchange rate channels and the downside risk relationship between commodity prices and exchange rates of developing economies. My first two chapters focus on the transition economies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the CIS, a group of former Soviet republics, and my third chapter considers other developing countries too. The first chapter examines macroeconomic connectedness in the CIS region through business cycle synchronization. I investigate the role of the global factor and the CIS factor in evolution of business cycles in the CIS countries by applying …
Three Essays In Health Economics, Sezen Ozcan Onal
Three Essays In Health Economics, Sezen Ozcan Onal
Theses and Dissertations
In the first chapter of my dissertation, I examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaidexpansion on the labor supply decisions of older workers. To investigate this, I employ a triple-differences (DDD) methodology, utilizing variations in individuals’ health insurance status and the expansion choices made by states. The results of my analysis shows that with Medicaid expansion, insured workers without retirement health insurance (RHI) decreased full-time work by 7.06 percentage points relative to those with RHI and those without any employer-sponsored coverage at all. Among those no longer working full-time, 82 percent transitioned to complete retirement. Moving on to …