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primary jobs, then moonlighting itself implies that labor supply constraints exist and so supports the previous literature … from the SIPP (Survey of Income and Program Participation ) for prime-aged men, we find evidence that the decision to … moonlight is quite responsive to wage changes (on both jobs) and arises from at least two distinct motives. Furthermore …
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hold multiple jobs due to some sort of constraint on the primary job that limits that job's earnings capacity. Second …, moonlighting may arise because the labor supplied to the two jobs are not perfect substitutes. That is, the wage paid and utility … example, the costs and benefits of both jobs are more complex than the monetary wages paid and the forgone value of leisure …
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This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program … recipients who met certain criteria. The Ohio JSRP was an activity pursued by some JOBS program clients in Ohio to fulfill their … constructed comparison group. The comparison group was comprised of JOBS clients in the ODHS CRIS-E file with twelve or more years …
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Over the last 15 to 20 years, colleges and universities have paid increasing attention to attracting and retaining faculty women. The rate of progress of women in academe has nevertheless been painfully slow. For example, statistics on economists collected and published by the American Economic...
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sharply. Moreover, although job growth was high, many argued that the quality of American jobs as measured by wages, benefits …, and job security deteriorated. The decline of jobs in the high-paying manufacturing sector and the growth of jobs in the … paper, I examine whether and in what sense there is any evidence that the quality of jobs in the United States has declined …
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This paper extends earlier research on optimal unemployment insurance (UI) by developing an equilibrium search model that encompasses simultaneously several theoretical and institutional features that have been treated one-by-one (or not at all) in previous discussions of optimal UI. In...
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This paper considers the effect of child care costs on two labor market outcomes for single mothers whether to participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the sample (using data drawn from the 1992 and 1993 panels...
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This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
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We analyze the price pass-through effect of the minimum wage and use the results to provide insight into the competitive structure of low-wage labor markets. Using monthly price series, we find that the pass-through effect is entirely concentrated on the month that the minimum wage change goes...
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This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual … Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster … metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the lowest income quintile by a significantly greater percentage than for …
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