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Mobile Politicians: Opportunistic Career Moves Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Naci Mocan, Duha T. Altindag
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Exposure to Economic Distress during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2024-02-07
Abstract This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008-2009 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birthweight. Using birth history data from the 2008 and 2013 waves of the Demographic Health Surveys, we find that the economic crisis resulted in decreased birthweight in Turkey, especially impacting infants born to mothers with
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Estimating Long-Term Impacts of Wartime Schooling Disruptions on Private Returns to Schooling in Kuwait Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Simon Bilo, Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Ebtesam AlAnsari, Lama AlHumaidan, Faleh AlRashidi
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On-The-Job Training and Learning: Formal Training versus Learning by Doing Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kevin Siqueira
The paper looks at and compares two methods of on-the-job training: formal training and learning by doing. The former involves an intensive training period prior to the employee directly taking on the position for which he or she was hired for, while the latter, the employee begins immediately and is expected to learn on his or her own through experience over time. The former method allows less room
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Effects of Labor Market Regulation for Underprivileged Workers: Evidence from Brazil Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Joana Costa, Felipe Russo, Guilherme Hirata, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda Barbosa
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Are College Graduate Immigrants on Work Visa Cheaper Than Natives? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Omid Bagheri
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Unravelling the Link between Automatability and Job Satisfaction Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Arthur Jacobs, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem
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Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Labor Market Exits of Older Workers? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Sezen O. Onal
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Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Anita Alves Pena
Early research hypothesized impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural workers, food supply, and rural health systems based on population characteristics from data collected preceding the pandemic. Trends confirmed a vulnerable workforce and limits to field sanitation, housing quality, and healthcare. Less is known about eventual, realized impacts. This article uses the Current Population Survey’s COVID-19
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Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Lutz Bellmann
Using data from the European Company Survey for a cluster of nations possessing a common system of workplace representation, we consider two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance, namely the deployment of structured management practices and the presence of works councils. The outcome indicators are management’s assessment of establishment financial performance and labor productivity
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter Inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Marianna Schaubert
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What do Right-to-Work Laws do to Unions? Evidence from Six Recently-Enacted RTW Laws Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Kyung-nok Chun
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English Proficiency, Gender and the Occupations of Childhood Immigrants in the US Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Alicia Adserà, Aditi Bhowmick
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The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Peter McHenry, Jennifer M. Mellor
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Minimum Wage Effects on Reservation Wages Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Panos Sousounis, Gauthier Lanot
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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Probability of Job Separation: Evidence from Job Duration Data in South Korea Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Tai Lee
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Education and Voluntary Work: Evidence from Turkish Time Use Survey Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Betul Akar, Pelin Akyol, Cagla Okten
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Shortage of Skilled Labor, Unions and the Wage Premium: A Regression Analysis with Establishment Panel Data for Germany Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Arnd Kölling
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Nurse Licensure Compact and Mobility Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Shishir Shakya, Sriparna Ghosh, Conor Norris
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Does Paid Family Leave Cause Mothers to Have More Children? Evidence from California Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Eleanor Golightly, Pamela Meyerhofer
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Regulation Enforcement Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Michael Gmeiner, Robert Gmeiner
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Basic Skills or Major-Specific Knowledge? Sources of Wage Penalties for Working Outside the Major Field of Study Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Yuki Onozuka
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Gender stereotypes in job advertisements: What do they imply for the gender salary gap? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Eva O. Arceo-Gomez, Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Raquel Y. Badillo, Sergio Lopez-Araiza
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Diabetes and Young Adults’ Labor Supply: Evidence from a Novel Instrumental Variable Strategy Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Paolo Nicola Barbieri, Hieu Nguyen
This paper explores the extent to which a negative health condition limits US young adults’ participation in the labor market. We first rely on medical evidence to develop a new set of instruments for diabetes incorporating both socioeconomic and genetic information. Exploiting the variation in glycated hemoglobin (\(HbA_{1c}\)), a measure of plasma glucose concentration available in Wave IV of the
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Women’s Labor Market Responses to Their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Carina Keldenich, Andreas Knabe
Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within and between effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses
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Evaluating the Effect of the Matching Grant Program for Refugees: An Observational Study Using Matching, Weighting, and the Mantel-Haenszel Test Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Seonho Shin
This study evaluates the treatment effect of the Matching Grant Program in the United States, a resettlement assistance program for officially admitted refugees with the aim of helping them gain early employment. The matching estimates of this study suggest that the program significantly increased the employment probability of its participants by 12 to 13 percentage points. Heterogeneity analyses show
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Industry Variations in Health Plans and Dynamic Employment Substitution Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Youjin Hahn, Myungkyu Shim, Hee-Seung Yang
Using data on the U.S., we study the effects of employer-sponsored health insurance on dynamic employment substitution between 1990 and 2007 by exploiting the interindustry variation in health care coverage. We find that industries with a high health benefit structure in 1990 have experienced faster employment growth of full-time workers relative to part-time workers, while the relative wage of full-time
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College Education, Earning Inequality, and Market Power Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Oz Shy
More people in the U.S. graduate from college than ever before. However, earning inequality has been rising (rather than declining) during the past 50 years. Whereas previous literature explained this puzzle by skill-biased technology changes, I argue that there must be additional factors, such as increased market power in some sectors, that contribute to the rise in earning inequality. These factors
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Work Environment and Worker Performance: A View from the Goal Crease Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 W. David Allen
Work environments commonly entail multi-worker production, a regulatory setting, and an overarching managerial structure. Guided by an economic model of individual production, I examine how such elements influence worker performance in the empirical setting of NHL goaltenders, observed over multiple seasons. Results reveal new evidence of positive workplace peer effects but reduced goalie performance
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Give it Another Try: What are the Effects of a Job Creation Scheme Especially Designed for Hard-to-Place Workers? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Brändle, Tobias, Fervers, Lukas
Previous evaluations of job creation schemes (JCS) reveal mostly negative employment effects, mainly due to inherent lock-in effects. In this paper, we assess the impact of an innovative JCS that employs a pre-selection mechanism to target programme participation on unemployed job seekers with very low integration chances, hereby reducing possible lock-in effects. Relying on high-quality administrative
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The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Makridis, Christos A., Hirsch, Barry T.
We assess the labor market experiences and earnings of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others, controlling for a wide array of demographic characteristics and industry and occupational fixed effects. First, we find that male and female veterans receive civilian earnings nearly equivalent to nonveteran men and women. This finding implies that military experience is valued
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The Minimum Wage in a Roy Model with Monopsony Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Martin, Darius Daniel
I propose and estimate a structural model of the labor market that features agents who are heterogeneous in both productivity and reservation wages, and a monopsony employer bound by the minimum wage. I examine the consequences of alternative minimum wage regimes. My results indicate that under a $15 federal minimum wage, at least 1.58 million lower-skilled women aged between 24 and 55 who worked for
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Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Mexican Migrants Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Heriberto Gonzalez-Lozano
We study how changes in return migration patterns over the last decade impacted self-employment rates in Mexico. Using state historical migration rates as instruments, we calculate elasticities of self-employment to return migration of 0.093, 0.156, and 0.236 for all workers, males, and low-educated male workers, respectively. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that the 0.18 percentage point
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Is the Road to Unemployment Paved with Good Intentions? Labor Market Outcomes of Young Women Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Chia Jung Chang
The primary objective of the California Paid Family Leave (CA-PFL) program is to ease the burden of parenthood. One unintended consequence is that employers may bear the cost of the CA-PFL program and respond by changing their demand for those most likely to take-up the policy. I examine how the employment and wages of women of childbearing age (i.e., young women) change relative to men of the same
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Taking PISA Seriously: How Accurate are Low-Stakes Exams? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Pelin Akyol, Kala Krishna, Jinwen Wang
PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper provides a method to identify and account for non-serious behavior in low-stakes exams by leveraging information in computer-based assessments in PISA 2015. Our method corrects for non-serious
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The Effect of Subsidies to Mature-Age Employment: a Quasi-Experimental Analysis Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Paulino Font, Mario Izquierdo, Sergio Puente
This paper evaluates the effect of subsidies to employment maintenance on the probability of mature-age workers staying in the firm. Implementing a quasi-experimental design provided by changes in Spanish labor market regulations, we are able to estimate that the end of subsidies had a small though statistically significant and negative impact on workers’ firm attachment rate. Our results show that
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Measuring the Dynamics of the Achievement Gap Between Public and Private School Students During Early Life in India Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Ian K. McDonough, Punarjit Roychowdhury, Gaurav Dhamija
It is well documented that private school students outperform their public school counterparts in India. However, researchers have only focused on the achievement gap in levels without considering the underlying dynamics of how students move through the distribution of achievement over time. We bridge this gap here by exploring the dynamics of the public-private school achievement gap in India by applying
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Linguistic Distance, Languages of Work and Wages of Immigrants in Montreal Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Ibrahim Bousmah, Gilles Grenier, David M. Gray
We use the Levenshtein linguistic distance measure to explore the question of whether the distance between an immigrant’s mother tongue and a Canadian official language (English or French) has an impact on his/her economic integration into the labor market. Using microdata from the master files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian censuses and from the 2011 National Household Survey, we investigate the relationship
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Occupational Licensing: Improving Access to Regulatory Information Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Morris M. Kleiner, Edward J. Timmons
Occupational licensing affects more than one in five workers in the US, but research is often limited by the high cost of obtaining regulatory data. We highlight existing and forthcoming databases of regulatory information. We also summarize the papers included in this volume and discuss their contribution to the literature.
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Reducing a Barrier to Entry: The 120/150 CPA Licensing Rule Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Brian Meehan, E. Frank Stephenson
In the United States, one of the most common state-level occupational licensing requirements is education. Education requirements for certified public accountants (CPAs) in many states have increased over the past few decades, but recently a few states have reduced their educational requirement to sit for the CPA exam. Using data from 2006 to 2016, we separately examine the effects of relaxing or strengthening
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The Labor Market Consequences of Regulating Similar Occupations: the Licensing of Occupational and Physical Therapists Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Jing Cai, Morris M. Kleiner
This study examines the influence of occupational licensing on two significant occupations that provide similar health care services: occupational therapists and physical therapists. Since many of the tasks that these occupations overlap, individuals in both occupations can have legal jurisdiction over these tasks. We examine how these two occupations interact with one another in the labor market on
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Occupational Credentials and Job Qualities of Direct Care Workers: Implications for Labor Shortages Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jeounghee Kim
Occupational training and credentialing requirements for direct care workers were in place for consumers’ health and safety, but their effects on job qualities and labor shortages in the direct care industry have been controversial. Using a nationally representative sample of psychiatric, nursing, and home health aides, a series of Average Treatment Effect models were analyzed to examine the effects
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Job Searching and the Weather: Evidence from Time-Use Data Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Jorge González Chapela
This paper combines individual-level time-use data for 2003–2017 with daily weather observations for U.S. counties to estimate the effects of precipitation and temperature on the intensity of job searching by the unemployed. Linear and nonlinear effects are investigated, along with heterogeneous responses across different populations. A 1 °C increase in maximum (minimum) temperature produces a same-day
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Impact of Occupational Licensing on Wages and Wage Inequality: Canadian Evidence 1998–2018 Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Tingting Zhang, Morley Gunderson
Based on Labour Force Survey data for Canada over the period 1998 to 2018, we find occupational licensing raised average real wages from 6.1% in 1998 to 13.8% by 2018, slightly less for propensity score matching estimates, suggesting the effect is somewhat lower after adjusting for unobservable factors that can affect pay. Unconditional quantile regressions indicate the licensing effects on wages are
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Does Scope of Practice Affect Mobility of Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-11-15 Shishir Shakya, Alicia Plemmons
The shortage of nurse practitioners in the United States has broadly decreased access, decreased quality, and increased care costs. In some states, policymakers are trying to address such shortages by expanding nurse practitioners’ scope of practice or extending autonomy for nurses to order tests, prescribe medications, diagnose patients, and initiate and manage treatments. We exploit the state-level
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Gender Gaps in Time Use and Labor Market Outcomes: What’s Norms Got to Do with it? Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-08-29 Nan L. Maxwell, Nathan Wozny
Although economists typically use efficiency gains to explain gender differences in time use and earnings, norms might also explain those differences. No study has attempted to quantify their relative influence, however. We use the American Community Survey and the American Time Use Survey to estimate an upper bound of the influence of efficiency gains relative to norms—broadly defined—using four groups
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For Love and Money? Earnings and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Michael E. Martell, Peyton Nash
We investigate the earnings effects of marriage among same-sex couples in the United States. Gays and lesbians in the United States have only recently been allowed to enter into legally recognized marriages. As such, we know little about the impact of same-sex marriage on the economic lives of gays and lesbians. We use data from the 2013 to 2017 American Community Survey to show that married gay men
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Optimal EITC in the Presence of Cultural Barriers for Labor Market Participation Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Michel Strawczynski
In this paper I simulate the entrance to the labor market in the presence of cultural barriers that constraint labor market participation of low-income workers. In this case, an optimal EITC depends on social planner’s relative preferences for persistently unemployed and working poor. I check EITC optimality in the short run under different types of social planners - from mild inequality averse to
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The Effect of Immigration on Labor Market Transitions of Native-Born Unemployed in the United States Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Fernando Rios-Avila, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza
Unemployed workers are the group most likely to be affected by the presence of immigrants in their local labor markets since they are actively competing for job opportunities. Yet, little is known about the effect of immigration on labor market opportunities of the unemployed. Using a sample of unemployed native-born citizens from the monthly Current Population Survey from 2001 to 2015 and state level
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How Long Do Early Career Decisions Follow Women? The Impact of Employer History on the Gender Wage Gap Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Holly Monti, Martha Stinson, Lori Zehr
We add to the gender wage gap literature by considering how characteristics of past employers are correlated with current wages and whether differences between the work histories of men and women are related to the persistent gender wage gap. Our hypothesis is that women have less exposure to higher paying industries and firms and more exposure to lower paying ones over the course of their careers
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On the Sensitivity of Wage Gap Decompositions Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Martin Huber, Anna Solovyeva
This paper investigates the sensitivity of average wage gap decompositions to methods resting on different assumptions regarding endogeneity of observed characteristics, sample selection into employment, and estimators’ functional form. Applying five distinct decomposition techniques to estimate the gender wage gap in the U.S. using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find
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The Effect of Industry-Level Aggregate Demand on Earnings: Evidence from the US Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-04-18 W. D. McCausland, F. Summerfield, I. Theodossiou
Economic theory suggests that workers’ pay is mainly determined by their marginal product and that industry wage differentials may result either from the structure of the industry (demand type factors) or human capital characteristics of the employed labour force (supply type factors). This study uses a major data set from the US that allows the investigation of the effects of these demand and supply
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Work-Life Balance and Labor Force Attachment at Older Ages Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 Marco Angrisani, Maria Casanova, Erik Meijer
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the role of work-life balance as a non-monetary determinant of retirement transitions, conditional on job attributes such as hours of work, compensation, and benefits. We rely on self-reported measures of work-life conflict to proxy for low levels of work-life balance. We show that high levels of work-life conflict are significantly associated
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Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio
This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia, which have had different political and economic strategies in recent years. Using data from household surveys, a decomposition of the wage distribution in each country using functional principal component analysis is conducted. The results suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented
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Does Empathy Pay? Evidence on Empathy and Salaries of Recent College Graduates Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-02-06 Linda Kamas, Anne Preston
This paper examines linkages between empathy and salaries of recent college graduates. While it has been suggested that greater empathy enhances performance because empathic individuals work well with others and are good leaders, it is also possible that they will be less productive due to lower motivation to compete for pecuniary rewards or because they are considered to be too accommodating. Also
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Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction: Survey-Based Evidence from Sweden Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2020-01-08 Lina Aldén, Mats Hammarstedt, Hanna Swahnberg
We present results from a unique nationwide survey conducted in Sweden on sexual orientation and job satisfaction. Our results show that gay men are more likely to be very satisfied with their job than heterosexual men, both in general and with different aspects of the job. In contrast, lesbians appear less satisfied with their job in general and with promotion prospects than heterosexual women. Among
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Pathways to Retirement, Well-Being, and Mandatory Retirement Rules: Evidence from Canadian Reforms Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2019-08-03 Derek Messacar, Petr Kocourek
Amid the aging workforce, a better understanding of the retirement transition patterns of older workers has implications for public policy. Such transitions are often characterized as complex trajectories involving multiple stages and alternative pathways which, in turn, depend on labor market regulations. This study investigates the factors affecting bridge employment and partial retirement and their
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Wage Returns to English Proficiency in Poland Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2019-07-25 Vera A. Adamchik, Thomas J. Hyclak, Piotr Sedlak, Larry W. Taylor
Abstract We investigate the effect of English language proficiency on the wages of native full-time employees in Poland. Using a unique data set with information on over 600,000 survey respondents polled over the five-year period from 2013 to 2017, we employ an IV approach founded on a natural experiment - namely, the reform of foreign language instruction in Polish schools. Our preferred estimates
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The Effects of an Employment Bonus for Long-Term Social Assistance Recipients Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2019-06-05 Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Christophe Kolodziejczyk
This study uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate effects of an employment bonus program for long-term unemployed social assistance recipients. The program pays benefit bonuses to persons in the target group for any hours they work in regular employment or subsidized employment schemes. The program pays up to 6 % of post-tax earnings if they enter regular or subsidized employment over a
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Monopsony Power in Occupational Labor Markets Journal of Labor Research (IF 1.026) Pub Date : 2019-06-03 Fabio Méndez, Facundo Sepúlveda
We collect data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and create comparable measures of monopsonistic power for up to 46 occupational labor markets in the USA, starting in 1979 and ending in 2000. Our results suggest most occupational labor markets during that period were characterized by substantial amounts of monopsonistic, wage-setting power. Furthermore, after controlling for individual