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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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Firm/Employee Matching : An Industry Study of American Lawyers
Oyer, Paul - 2012
We study the sources of match-specific value at large American law firms by analyzing how graduates of law schools group into law firms. We measure the degree to which lawyers from certain schools concentrate within firms and then analyze how this agglomeration can be explained by "natural...
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostol, Andreas - 2013
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...
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Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets
Pallais, Amanda - 2013
hiring workers and providing more detailed evaluations substantially improved workers' subsequent employment outcomes. Under …
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Recall and Unemployment
Fujita, Shigeru - 2013
market outcomes than job switchers. Over 40% of all workers separating into unemployment regain employment at their previous …
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik - 2013
compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …
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Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health : Evidence Using the Psid
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2010
In this paper, we provide some of the first empirical evidence of whether early occupational choices are associated with lasting effects on health status, affecting individuals as they age. We take advantage of data on occupational histories available in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)...
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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-Wage Worker Advancement
Heinrich, Carolyn - 2007
We examine the effects of temporary help service employment on later earnings and employment for individuals … participating in three federal programs providing supportive services to those facing employment difficulties. The programs include … heterogeneous population of participants; and employment exchange services, whose participants consist of Unemployment Insurance …
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Unlucky Cohorts : Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-Sectional Data Sets
Schwandt, Hannes - 2018
This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and wage reductions especially for less advantaged...
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Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
Han, WenJui - 2010
policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children … leave laws) foster both choice and higher levels of employment …
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