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The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor); … - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence

Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor); … - 2008

Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...

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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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The reliability of subjective well-being measures

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...

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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...

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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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