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Analysis Of The Temporary Immigrant Labor Market On Information Technology Occupations, Katelyn Rowley

Honors Projects

An important recent labor market trend is the rapid increase in the number of immigrants employed in the information technology sector who have temporary worker status. The dual labor market theory suggests that temporary immigrant workers will be affected more adversely than native workers during a recession. This study uses OLS regression models to predict wages and employment levels (through usual hours worked) in information technology (IT) occupations as a function of immigration status, education level, age, gender, the recession and a set of interactive terms. The results from this study unexpectedly show that employment of native workers in IT ...

Does It Pay To Work In Your Degree Field? Evidence From The American Community Survey, William Hampton

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

“La Generación Ni Ni” And The Exodus Of Spanish Youth, Stephanie Lester

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

No abstract provided.

A Global Talent Shortage: Myth Or Reality?, Benjamin A. Todd

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Intertemporal Substitution In Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws, Rashmi Rekha Barua

Research Collection School of Economics (Open Access)

I propose a new framework to study the intertemporal labor supply hypothesis. I use an exogenous source of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study intertemporal labor supply behavior. Employing data from the 1980 US Census and the NLSY, I estimate the effect of a one year delay in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. IV estimates imply that having a 5 year old enrolled in school increases labor supply measures for married women, with no younger children, by between 7 to 34 percent. Further, using a sample of 7 ...

Contending Theories Of Wage Determination: An Intersectoral Analysis Of Real Wage Growth In The U.S. Economy, James Sheffield

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at the University of Tennessee

In recent years, social movements and popular media have drawn attention to the issue of income inequality in the United States. This growing inequality in the distribution of income is often seen as a function of stagnating wage growth in the U.S. economy. There appears to be a fairly broad consensus among commentators that wage growth for many workers in the U.S. has stagnated in recent decades, though the precise causes and implications of this trend are a matter of considerable dispute. Some see it as a function of stagnant productivity growth, while others attribute it to the ...

It's All About The Power, James Castagnera

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Summary Report: The State Of Black Entrepreneurship In The United States: Education, Labor Activity, And Access To Capital, Rebecca Tekula, Molly Tracy

Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship

No abstract provided.

The State Of Ohio's Steel Industry, Edward W. Hill, Iryna Lendel, Fran Stewart

Urban Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of College Major On Labor Market Outcomes Of Chinese Immigrants: An Examination Of Undergraduate Major Choices And Their Impact On Employment And Earnings, Guanyi Yang

Undergraduate Economic Review

Education is a crucial factor that determines labor market outcomes, especially for immigrants. This paper specifically examines the undergraduate major choice for Chinese immigrants and its relationship to their labor market outcome. Compared to other Asian groups and the mainstream society, Chinese immigrants are uniquely congregated in business and science categories. The level of popularity to a major is positively related to their labor market outcome. This finding reveals the current pre-market educational investment pattern for Chinese immigrants, and adds to the existing literature by focusing on how detail education quality in terms of major relates to labor market performance.

The Pros And Cons Of Outsourcing, Angela Smith

UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones

Outsourcing has become increasingly popular to the public since the mid-20th century and has become more controversial in the last decade. The United States economy has been under the microscope for the last 4 years due to an economic recession. Outsourcing has been a subject of interest that has been brought up numerous times by economists. Offshore outsourcing is the main type of outsourcing that is of concern in relation to the United States economy. This topic is highly debated because of the unemployment rate in America.

Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera

Hispanic Studies Publications

Abstract

Blood, organs and other tissues for sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto a la carne and the afterwards of the neoliberal development in Latin America.

As Marx elaborated in Capital: Volume I at the moment human labour is sold, the subject participates in an ominous plot where she/he becomes a commodity. In a capitalist mode of production, the subject’s alienation from his/her humanity occurs because the individuals can only express labor through a privately-owned system of production in which he/she is an instrument, an object. This dehumanization process submits the subject under the exchange transactions of ...

Spillover Effects Of Metro Academic R&D On Non-Metro Labor Market Conditions, Pedro J. Sarsama, Subhra Baran Saha

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Research regarding spillover effects of academic innovation tends to focus on the effects innovation from metro areas on metro area labor markets. The results suggest that innovation in big cities generates migration to metros from non metros, thereby reducing available labor supply. As a result metro innovation reduces non metro employment but increase earning for people who reside in non metros. We have evidence that higher innovation in metros increase human capital in non metro areas

An Alternative To Temporary Staffing: Considerations For Workforce Practitioners, Linda Kato, Françoise Carré, Laura E. Johnson, Deena Schwartz

Center for Social Policy Publications

As the national economy inches toward recovery, risk-averse employers are increasingly turning to temporary workers to fill their hiring gaps. In fact, the temporary staffing industry has been a fixture of the US economy for decades. But the industry added a striking 557,000 jobs from June 2009 to November 2011 — more than half of the jobs created during that period. Growth is likely to continue: A 2011 McKinsey survey of 2,000 firms of differing sizes and across various sectors found that more than a third foresaw their companies increasing their use of temporary workers over the next five ...

Brains Over Brawn: Are There Lower Levels Of Wage Discrimination Between The Sexes In Industries That Require Less Physical Strength And More Cognitive Skill?, Jessica Baier

Award Winning Economics Papers

With the advent of technological innovations, cognitive abilities have become increasingly valued in the workplace, while physical strength, an important requirement for manual labor, has become less important. One might expect, therefore, the gender wage gap to be lower in occupations that require more cognitive skills, as men’s comparative advantage should be lower in those industries. Using 2010 individual data from the PUMS, I test whether the gender wage gap varies by industry or occupation, grouped according to skill level. I decompose the gaps using the Oaxaca decomposition, and find that, while there is not a clear pattern of ...

Three Essays In The Economics Of Education, Philip Sj Leonard

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

Education has become increasingly important in today’s society. In the three essays of this dissertation, I analyze the impacts of government education policies on elementary and high school students in Ontario.

The first two essays measure the costs and benefits of programs that allow students to choose from a wider range of high schools. Theoretically, increased choice could benefit students since schools might compete for students by improving their productivity. The third essay of this dissertation, coauthored with Jean Eid and Christine Neill, examines the impacts on students of a switch from half-day to full-day kindergarten.

In the first ...

Essays On Informal Labor Markets, Javier Cano Urbina

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis consists of three related papers. The first paper examines whether informal sector jobs are a source of training for young less-educated workers. Controlling for worker and job characteristics, it is found that in the early years of workers' careers in Mexico, wage growth in the informal sector is higher than in the formal sector. This result is consistent with general human capital investment on-the-job if the informal labor market is more competitive than the formal labor market due to frictions generated by labor regulations. These results motivate a deeper analysis of the informal labor market which is presented ...

Team Production Function And Player Shirking In Major League Baseball, Michael Kodesch, Kevin Macios

Colgate Academic Review

Major League Baseball has long been recognized as a useful tool in modeling other labor markets. Not only does the system perfectly replicate personal psyche and motivation, but few other industries record worker statistics to the extent of the MLB. In fact, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are dedicated to producing a myriad of performance measures in an attempt to help quantify individual and team production. With these measures, various topics can be discussed within a numerical context. Baseball is also a very interesting industry due to its monopsonistic nature, where the owner has total contract ...

Gender Differences In Competition: A Game Theoretic Assessment, Christopher Cotton, Frank Mcintyre, Joseph Price

Christopher Cotton

Beginning with Gneezy, Niederle and Rustichini (2003), a number of studies show that males increase their performance by more than females in response to competitive incentives. We use contest theory to assess alternative explanations for this male advantage that have been proposed in the literature. The analysis compares the testable predictions from theory with the experimental evidence from Gneezy, Niederle and Rustichini. We reject a number of explanations that have been proposed in the literature involving misperceptions about relative ability, preference differences, and male overconfidence. Explanations involving males being better able to perform under competitive pressure and males getting greater ...

Minimum Wage In A Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003, Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi, Ken Yamada

Research Collection School of Economics (Open Access)

The statutory minimum wage in Japan has steadily increased over the past few decades even during a period of deflation. This paper examines the impact of the minimum wage on wage and employment outcomes under this unusual circumstance. We find that the increased bite of the minimum wage resulted in the compression of the lower tail of the wage distribution among women and that the wage compression is partially attributed to employment loss resulting from the minimum-wage increase. The increased bite of the minimum wage accounts for one half of the reduction in lowertail inequality that occurred among women during ...