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Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement : How Secure is the Child Care Market?

Ali, Umair; Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the staggered introduction of SC across counties between...

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Child Care Over the Business Cycle

Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2021

We estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. We find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds more strongly to negative shocks than positive ones. Indeed, child care employment requires more...

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The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market

Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2015

More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries. In this paper we study the labour...

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Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer

Gromadzki, Jan - 2023

I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...

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Structural Unemployment in Luxembourg : Bad Luck or Rational Choice?

Gbohoui, William - 2019

This paper combines both micro and macro approaches to identify the drivers of (un)employment and inactivity in Luxembourg. The young, low-skilled, and non-EU migrants are found to be the most vulnerable groups in the labor market. In addition to skills mismatches, work disincentives embedded in...

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The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain

Bell, David N.F. - 2019

The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...

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The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment : Is there a Role for Work Culture?

Galassi, Gabriela - 2019

We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. After controlling for ability, education, and wealth, a...

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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Guner, Nezih - 2020

The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...

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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Schøne, Pål - 2020

We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of …-licensed workers experience a fall in labor earnings relative to licensed workers after the EU enlargement. Increased wife's labor … supply and earnings compensate almost 40 percent of the loss. We do not find a similar change in the division of labor in …

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The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers : Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund

Jones, Damon - 2018

What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using data from the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, we show that the...

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