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Who Moonlights and Why?: Evidence from the SIPP
Kimmel, Jean; Conway, Karen Smith - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995
, moonlighting may arise because the labor supplied to the two jobs are not perfect substitutes. That is, the wage paid and utility … males reporting a second job in 1993 (Mishel and Bernstein, 1995, p. 226). Moonlighting reflects growing financial stress … percent of moonlighters report taking the second job due to economic hardship. Additionally, moonlighting is a reflection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141971
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Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Kimmel, Jean; Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997
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 … employment outcomes. Second there were difficulties matching across data sources. For example, not all individuals in the JSRP …
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Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game
Connelley, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999
elasticity with respect to the price of child care than full-time employment. Second, we estimate a multinomial logit model to …
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Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses
Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996
labor market? And, how might restrictions concerning welfare eligibility currently undergoing legislative debate enter into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030677
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A Framework for Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of Workplace Literacy Training
Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996
profitability. Public policy makers are interested in the issue because if productive workers lose their jobs, the public may end up …, if basic skills-deficient workers get training and keep their jobs, they will continue to pay taxes that support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116759
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Seeing the World with Different Eyes : Gender Differences in Perceptions and the Propensity to Start a Business
Koellinger, Philipp - 2008
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724716
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El mercado laboral y el problema pensional colombiano
Castaño, Hugo LóPEz; Valderrama, Francisco Lasso - Banco de la Republica de Colombia - 2012
Este artículo examina el problema que plantea la cobertura pensional de los colombianos menos educados y más vulnerables. Relaciona las tendencias del mercado laboral con la baja cobertura pensional: el sesgo del empleo urbano moderno contra los menos educados ha generado para estos un ciclo...
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How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment
Li, Xia - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2908-2920
In this study, I empirically estimate the impact of children on women's labor market outcomes (such as work status …, work hours and earnings). The identification in a female labor supply model where the fertility is endogenous comes from …'s labor supply. It also shows that the IV estimates tend to be smaller in scale than the OLS estimates using the same data …
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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255521
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...
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