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This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …
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working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
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marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are … labor market transition behavior at these margins, finding remarkably consistent results in the two countries, with the …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
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participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment ; bridge jobs ; baby boom …
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This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
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In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
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have substantial effects on employment behavior for up to 6 years. However, obtaining a permanent increase in employment …A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women's transitions between full-time employment …, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved …
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