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Medical Innovation, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes of Cancer Patients

Jeon, Sung-Hee; Pohl, Vincent - 2019

cancer patients. In addition, we compare this effect across cancer patients with different levels of educational attainment …. We estimate the effect of medical innovation on cancer patients’ labor market outcomes employing tax return and cancer … index. While cancer patients are less likely to work after their diagnosis, we find that the innovations in cancer treatment …

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Employment and Training Policy in the United States During the Economic Crisis

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Eberts, Randall W. - 2015

This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross domestic product growth turned negative, from the end of...

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Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who are Not Covered? Evidence from Documented, Undocumented, Hourly, and Piece Rate Workers in U.S. Agriculture

Pena, Anita - 2015

federal and state minimum wages, using data from a nationally and regionally representative survey of employed farm workers …

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Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience during the Recent Recession

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2015

During the recent recession, workers were eligible for UI benefits only if they were laid off in most states. At the start of the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC) — pro-rated unemployment benefits for workers whose hours are temporarily reduced for economic...

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Short Hours, Long Hours : Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Wyrwa, Richard; Tilly, Chris - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate — primarily service-producing activities — total hours matter, in addition to hourly...

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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Are There Returns to Experience at Low-Skill Jobs? Evidence from Single Mothers in the United States Over the 1990s

Looney, Adam; Manoli, Day - 2016

Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children. We then examine the economic return to this increase in...

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Domestic Outsourcing in the United States : A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality

Bernhardt, Annette; Batt, Rosemary; Houseman, Susan N.; … - 2016

The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the United States — firms’ use of contractors and independent contractors — and its effects on job quality and inequality. In the process, we review definitions of outsourcing,...

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and …-employed independent contractors speak about their work. Based on these findings, we designed and fielded a large-scale telephone survey to … employees in conventional household survey data and those who are independent contractors in a secondary work activity. We find …

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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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