Welfare Reform And At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply,
2013
Singapore Management University
Welfare Reform And At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply, Christine Ho
Research Collection School Of Economics
We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encouraging those mothers to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin.
The Effect Of Violence On Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Homicides In Rural Brazil,
2013
Selected Works
The Effect Of Violence On Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Homicides In Rural Brazil, Martin Koppensteiner, Marco Manacorda
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics natality and mortality data between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence—measured by homicide rates—on birth outcomes. Focusing on small communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that exposure to violence during pregnancy leads to deterioration in birth outcomes: one extra homicide during the first trimester of pregnancy increases the probability of low birthweight by around 6 percent. Results are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that …
Do Retail Firms Favor Female Managers? Evidence From Survey Data In Developing Countries,
2013
Enterprise Analysis Unit, FPDEA, World Bank
Do Retail Firms Favor Female Managers? Evidence From Survey Data In Developing Countries, Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam
Mohammad Amin
Using firm-level data for 87 developing countries, the paper analyzes how the likelihood of a firm having female vs. male top manager varies across sectors. The service sector is often considered to be more favorable towards women compared with men vis-à-vis the manufacturing sector. While our results confirm a significantly higher presence of female managers in services vs. manufacturing, the result is entirely driven by the retail firms with little contribution from other service sectors such as wholesale, construction and other services. We also find that the higher presence of female managers in the retail sector vs. manufacturing is much …
Tackling Undeclared Work In Croatia,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Croatia, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
The Shadow Economy,
2013
University of Sheffield
The Shadow Economy, Colin C. Williams, Friedrich Schneider
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In Montenegro,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Montenegro, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In Fyr Macedonia,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Fyr Macedonia, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In Turkey,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Turkey, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In Iceland,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Iceland, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In 27 European Union Member States And Norway,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In 27 European Union Member States And Norway, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Tackling Undeclared Work In Croatia And Four Eu Candidate Countries,
2013
University of Sheffield
Tackling Undeclared Work In Croatia And Four Eu Candidate Countries, Colin C. Williams, Marijana Baric, Piet Renooy
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Opting For Innovation: Selecting Highly Skilled Workers As A Competitive Strategy In The Jamaican Economy,
2013
Florida State University
Opting For Innovation: Selecting Highly Skilled Workers As A Competitive Strategy In The Jamaican Economy, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper empirically examines the relationship between a firm’s financial success and its innovation strategy, that is, how it utilizes or does not utilize professional service workers and researchers. Our empirical analysis uses a survey administered during 2006 to 324 Jamaican business and governmental organizations. We empirically investigate two questions: 1) what factors determine a firm’s innovation strategy; and, 2) which innovation strategies increase the financial success of firms. We find that sets of critical economic factors, alternatively group as market factors, human resource factors, production/service delivery factors, and other factors, are important determinants of the competitive strategy of Jamaican …
Does It Pay To Work In Your Degree Field? Evidence From The American Community Survey,
2013
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Does It Pay To Work In Your Degree Field? Evidence From The American Community Survey, William Hampton
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Growth And Structure Of Workforce In India : An Analysis Of Census 2011 Data,
2013
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
Growth And Structure Of Workforce In India : An Analysis Of Census 2011 Data, Venkatanarayana Motkuri, Suresh Naik Veslawath
Venkatanarayana Motkuri Mr.
Census 2011 brings new dimension to ongoing debate on the decline in the growth of employment from the last two decade. The census 2011 result gives better picture when compared with NSSO estimation of workforce. It is observed that there is a fast decelerating rate of growth in overall workforce, particularly that of females, between 2001 and 2011. But the work participation rate has not declined, if not increase, as the rate of growth in workforce is not less than that of population. Secondly, incremental workforce especially the male is getting reduced to marginal workers category whereas the high concentration …
Identifying The Effect Of Unemployment On Hate Crime,
2013
Syracuse University
Identifying The Effect Of Unemployment On Hate Crime, Alex Curthoys
Honors Capstone Projects - All
Hate crimes are those crimes that are motivated by bias against groups different from the perpetrator. They are especially contemptible offenses in that they, like terrorism, negatively impact an entire community as well as the victim targeted. While crime has been, and will continue to be, widely studied by economists, the specific area of hate crimes is relatively understudied. To contribute to the understanding of hate crimes, this paper examines whether hate crimes are economically motivated: in particular, whether there is a relationship between the incidence of hate crimes and the unemployment. Comprehending this link can help build the knowledge …
Labor Market Assimilation: Evidence From Hurricane Katrina Evacuees,
2013
Syracuse University
Labor Market Assimilation: Evidence From Hurricane Katrina Evacuees, Joseph Batista Andrade Iv
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The objective of this paper is to use the mass migration toHoustonafter Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment to estimate the effect of migration on employment (i.e., the effects of being an outsider rather than a native to a certain area). The use of this natural experiment helps control for the usual endogeneity of studying effects of immigration; it is safe to assume away the possibility that the migration was mainly because of higher wages or better employment opportunities, a possibility present in most empirical studies on the subject, which makes it hard to say how the actual migration itself …
Testing For Factor Price Equality With Unobserved Differences In Factor Quality Or Productivity,
2013
Dartmouth College
Testing For Factor Price Equality With Unobserved Differences In Factor Quality Or Productivity, Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott
Dartmouth Scholarship
We develop a method for identifying departures from relative factor price equality that is robust to unobserved variation in factor productivity. We implement this method using data on the relative wage bills of nonproduction and production workers across 170 local labor markets comprising the continental United States for 1972, 1992, and 2007. We find evidence of statistically significant differences in relative wages in all three years. These differences increase in magnitude over time and are related to industry structure in a manner that is consistent with neoclassical models of production. (JEL J31, J61, R23)
Employment Relations And Wages: What Can We Learn From Subjective Assessments?,
2013
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Employment Relations And Wages: What Can We Learn From Subjective Assessments?, Marta Lachowska
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find another job as good as the present one, and how easy it would be for an employer to replace an employee. First, using high-quality data, I study the correlates of these two assessments. Second, I study whether respondents who report better outside opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with predictions of at least three theoretical frameworks: human capital theory, search theory, and a “locus of control” model.
Effects Of Unemployment Insurance Extensions On Job Search Outcomes,
2013
Clemson University
Effects Of Unemployment Insurance Extensions On Job Search Outcomes, Ailin He
All Theses
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how unemployment insurance (UI) extensions affect job finding probabilities and the length of unemployment spells in the most recent decade. Exploiting the panel structure of the Current Population Survey (CPS), I constructed a 16-month panel with the CPS basic monthly data from 2002 to 2012 and modeled the reemployment (unemployment-to-employment and not-in-labor-force-to-employment) hazard. Since unemployment policies in the US are subjected to change by the condition of the macro economy, this paper adopted different approaches to distinguish UI impacts on exit probability from other macro factors. Our results suggest that UI extensions …
A Global Talent Shortage: Myth Or Reality?,
2013
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
A Global Talent Shortage: Myth Or Reality?, Benjamin A. Todd
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
