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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012

While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

nonminority white female entrepreneurs and slightly less than observationally similar Latinas in wage/salary work. -- Self-employment …

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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment … substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … the returns to low-skilled self-employment among men are relatively high we find that wage/salary employment is a …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low …-skilled self-employment among immigrants is higher than it is among natives but also that wage/salary employment is a more …

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …

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African Americans ̉pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); … - 2007

This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small … self-employment patterns in the low-barrier industries, advanced educational credentials actually predict lower entry …, college-educated individuals are more likely than less educated persons to enter into self employment. Overall, black presence …

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Why are Hispanic and African-American dropout rates so high?

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2007

The proportion of students who do not graduate from high school is dramatically higher among the two largest minority groups, Hispanics and African-Americans, compared to non-Hispanic whites. In this paper we utilize unique student-level data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) in an...

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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?

Tyler, John H. (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2008

We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of taking the "GED path" to postsecondary education....

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates of the signaling value of the GED for marginal...

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