Similar Search Results

The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes

Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014

effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398868

Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes

Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall W.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517671

Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411639

A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411668

Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … aversion (0.9282) and the estimates indicate that both wage and employment rate dispersions decrease significantly with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411833

Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2005

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a … even moderate amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the … significant. -- maternal employment ; adolescent development ; child obesity ; socioeconomic status …