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Neighbors and Co-Workers : The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

We specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using matched employer-employee data at the establishment level, we measure the importance of these network effects for...

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Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment

Neumark, David; Postlewaite, Andrew - 2022

We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women's (or families') utility...

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The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance : The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

Bradley, Cathy J. - 2011

We study how men's dependence on their own employer for health insurance affects labor supply responses and loss of health insurance coverage when faced with a serious health shock. Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) are more likely to remain working following some kinds of...

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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2014

Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...

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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks

Asquith, Brian - 2019

We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...

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Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs : Evidence from the Great Recession Period

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2015

We measure the changing efficacy of neighborhood-based labor market networks, across the business cycle, in helping displaced workers become re-employed, focusing on the periods before, during, and just after the Great Recession. Networks can only be effective when hiring is occurring, and...

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Job Stability in the United States

Diebold, Francis X.; Neumark, David; Polsky, Daniel - 2021

Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor...

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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?

Neumark, David - 2015

We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on … evidence that stronger age discrimination protections helped older workers weather the Great Recession, relative to younger … workers. The evidence sometimes points in the opposite direction, with stronger state age discrimination protections …

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Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

Bradley, Cathy J. - 2012

Employment-contingent health insurance creates incentives for ill workers to remain employed at a sufficient level (usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast...

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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2013

We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...

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