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Migration, risk and the intra-household allocation of labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2008

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide : initial results from a pre-specified analysis plan

Neumark, David; Yen, Maysen - 2020

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …

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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment : evidence from rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor); … - 2008

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...

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Do small businesses create more jobs? : new evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series

Neumark, David (contributor); Wall, Brandon (contributor); … - 2008

We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...

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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale

Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2008

We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...

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Health status and the allocation of time

Halliday, Timothy J.; Podor, Melinda - 2009

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status have large and positive effects on time allocated to home and market production and large negative effects on time spent watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of...

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Health inequality over the life-cycle

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2009

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We employ Simulated Minimum Distance and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model....

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Health investment over the life-cycle

Halliday, Timothy J.; He, Hui; Zhang, Hao - 2009

We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health accumulation. The model is able to produce the decline in labor supply with age as well as the hump-shaped consumption profile. In both cases, health and health investment play a crucial...

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