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Michael Seeborg

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Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael C. Seeborg, Robert M. Leekley Dec 1992

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

Michael Seeborg

Among the many explanations of income and poverty levels, especially among black families, two have garnered much of the recent public and academic attention: welfare disincentives and urban deindustrialization. Although on the surface, these explanations appear quite dissimilar, they do have a common thread.
 
The ''welfare-disincentive'' explanation argues that while public assistance raises family income and reduces poverty directly, it has the opposite effects indirectly. According to this argument, welfare leads recipients to reduce their work, schooling and traditional family formation [Murray, 1984] all of whose reductions significantly affect family income and poverty adversely. Blacks are hurt more than …

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The Narrowing Male-Female Unemployment Differential, Michael Seeborg, Larry Deboer Dec 1986

The Narrowing Male-Female Unemployment Differential, Michael Seeborg, Larry Deboer

Michael Seeborg

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The Impact Of Nontraditional Training On The Occupational Attainment Of Women, Michael Seeborg, Irmtraud Streker-Seeborg, Abera Zegeye Dec 1983

The Impact Of Nontraditional Training On The Occupational Attainment Of Women, Michael Seeborg, Irmtraud Streker-Seeborg, Abera Zegeye

Michael Seeborg

In this paper we examine the effect of nontraditional training on the occupational attainment of economically disadvantaged women. Using a logit model of occupational attainment, we found that women who received nontraditional training under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) were much less likely than their male counterparts to be employed in male-dominated occupations, and also received somewhat lower hourly wages. These results suggest that nontraditional training alone may not be an effective way of reducing the occupational segregation of low-income women.

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