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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Trejo, Stephen J.; Duncan, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821899
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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs
Pavoni, Nicola; Setty, Ofer; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Some existing welfare programs ("work-first") require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others ("job search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs when (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950714
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
von Wachter, Till Marco; Schmieder, Johannes F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV)...
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Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?
Coile, Courtney; Levine, Phillip B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social Security (SS) system affect how older workers respond to labor market shocks. To do so, we use pooled cross-sectional data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248815
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The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years
von Wachter, Till Marco; Schmieder, Johannes F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common concern that such extensions may themselves raise nonemployment durations, it is not known how recessions would affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652780
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The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment
von Wachter, Till Marco; Schmieder, Johannes F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focuses on the duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity design to analyze the long-term effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652843
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Nearly two years after the official end of the "Great Recession," the labor market remains historically weak. One candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to as many as 99 weeks. This paper investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325541
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Taxation and Redistribution of Residual Income Inequality
Golosov, Mikhail; Maziero, Pricila; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the optimal redistribution of income inequality in a model with search and matching frictions in the labor market. We study this problem in the context of a directed search model of the labor market populated by homogeneous workers and heterogeneous firms. The optimal...
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