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Temporary help work : compensating differentials and multiple job-holding
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2012
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers … earnings ; wages ; multiple jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575169
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
of individuals-sample restrictions commonly used by labor economists are avoided. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411833
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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411639
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Are There Human Capital Externalities in U.S. States? Evidence From the Consumer Population Survey
Yamarik, Steven - 2018
state-level data. By directly controlling for individual job characteristics and state labor market conditions, we can … schooling increases individual wages by five percent above and beyond the private return to education. Subsequent analysis finds … can help explain "The Great Divergence" in wages between geographic areas with highly-skilled workers versus those with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912935
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Country of Origin, Earnings Convergence, and Human Capital Investment : A New Method for the Analysis of U.S. Immigrant Economic Assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244052
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Minimum wage increases in a soft US economy
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
, minimum-wage workers are apparently concentrated in sectors of the economy for which the labor demand response to statutory … wage hikes is minimal. Popular concern with a "recessionary multiplier" thus seems overdone. -- minimum wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686210
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
a 'recessionary multiplier.' Minimum wage workers seem to be concentrated in sectors of the economy for which the labor … demand response to wage mandates is minimal. -- minimum wages ; disemployment ; earnings ; low-wage sectors ; geographically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516946
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Temporary help service firms' use of employer tax credits : implications for disadvantaged workers' labor market outcomes
Hamersma, Sarah (contributor);  … - 2007
Temporary help services (THS) firms are increasing their hiring of disadvantaged individuals and claiming more subsidies for doing so. Do these subsidies—the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW)—create incentives that improve employment outcomes for THS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633902