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Career Plans and Expectations of Young Women and Men : the Earnings Gap and Labor Force Participation
Blau, Francine D. - 2007
Using detailed information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, we test the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for lower penalties for labor force interruptions. We find...
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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...
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Is Automatic Enrollment Consistent with a Life Cycle Model?
Scott, Jason; Shoven, John B.; Slavov, Sita; Watson, John G. - 2022
We examine optimal retirement saving for young adults in a life cycle model. We find that for liquidity-constrained young adults who anticipate significant earnings growth, optimal retirement saving is zero. Specifically, we find that with a plausible wage profile for college-educated workers,...
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Training, Wages, and Sample Selection : Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
Lee, David - 2021
training programs in the United States. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages … that the program raised wages, consistent with the notion that the Job Corps raises earnings by increasing human capital …
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Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2021
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examines whether employment by high school students improves or worsens economic attainment 6 to 9 years after the scheduled date of high school graduation. There is no indication that light to moderate job commitments ever...
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The Effect of Illicit Drug Use on the Wages of Young Adults
Kaestner, Robert - 2021
This paper examines the effects of cocaine and marijuana use on the wages of a sample of young adults drawn from the … rather surprising results suggest that for this sample, increased use of marijuana or cocaine is associated with higher wages … observed positive relationship between drug use and wages. The results from this analysis do not support such a hypothesis …
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G.; Pierret, Charles R. - 2021
, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G.; Pierret, Charles R. - 2010
, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132896
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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion
Freeman, Richard B.; Rodgers, William M. - 2021
The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Employment and Earnings of Youth
Meyer, Robert H.; Wise, David A. - 2021
The employment and earnings effects of the minimum wage are estimated by parameterizing an hypothesized relationship between underlying market employment and wage relationships versus observed wage and employment distributions in the presence of a legislated minimum. If there had been no minimum...
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