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The relationship between minimum wage increases and youth employment is investigated using county-level data and spatial econometric
techniques. Results that account for spatial correlation indicate that a 10% increase in the effective minimum wage is associated
with a 3.2% decrease in youth employment, a result that is 28% higher than the corresponding estimate that does not control
for spatial correlation. Thus, estimates that do not take into account spatial correlation may significantly underestimate
the negative effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment. Improperly controlling for factors that vary systematically
over space can lead to incorrect inferences and misinform policy.
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Charlene M. KalenkoskiEmail: |
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Younghwan Song 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(3):279-304
Using data drawn from the Current Population Surveys, this paper provides a consistent explanation for why the presence of
a working wife reduces the husband’s wage among managers, but increases the husband’s wage among non-managers. It is not husband’s
occupation per se but rather the distribution of husbands’ wage levels that underlies the working spouse penalty or premium.
Positive correlations in earnings between married couples that arise from assortative mating make the cross-wage effects of
the husbands’ wages on the wives’ hours of work first positive, then negative in cross-sectional data. The phenomenon of a
working spouse penalty/premium is simply the flip side of this relationship.
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Younghwan SongEmail: |
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Fairness considerations often are invoked to explain wage differences that appear unrelated to worker characteristics or job
conditions, but non-experimental tests of fair wage models are rare because market data rarely permit researchers to measure
individual workers’ productivity and its value. We use data from the baseball labor market to address this problem, and find
no support for fair wage theory. We do find, however, that fairness premia can be illusory: Wages appear to incorporate fairness
premia in regressions that control for variation in individuals’ physical output, but such premia evaporate when the value
of that output is held constant.
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Stephen J. K. WaltersEmail: |
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Suzanne Heller Clain 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):205-218
I investigate how living wage legislation affects poverty. I find evidence that living wage ordinances modestly reduce poverty
rates where such ordinances are enacted. However, there is no evidence that state minimum wage laws do so. The difference
in the impacts of the two types of legislation conceivably stems from a difference in the party responsible for bearing the
burden of the cost.
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Suzanne Heller ClainEmail: |
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Parenthood and Commitment to the Legal Profession: Are Mothers Less Committed than Fathers? 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Jean E. Wallace 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(3):478-495
This research examined the relationship between parenthood and career commitment. Karasek’s (Administrative Science Quarterly 24:285–308, 1979) Job Demand-Job Control Model was used as a theoretic framework for hypothesizing the relationships between work and family
demands, job control and social support and parents’ career commitment. Questionnaire data from a sample of practicing lawyers
with children were used to test this model. The results show fathers generally reported more work demands than mothers; whereas,
mothers reported more family demands than fathers. Job control and social support did not moderate relationships between work
and family demands and parents’ career commitment. Perhaps the most surprising finding of this study, contrary to assumptions
in the literature and the workplace, was that mothers practicing law are significantly more committed to their careers than fathers. This paper closes by discussing possible explanations for these findings.
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Jean E. WallaceEmail: |
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Paul Hettler 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(3):477-486
No completely satisfactory explanation for the persistent and well-documented large-firm wage premium has been found. I use
a novel adaptation of the Oaxaca/Blinder wage discrimination model to examine the firm-size wage differential which allows
the wage differential to be decomposed into the portions attributable to (1) differences in employee endowments, (2) how the
firm values these endowments, and (3) residual differences. Small firms actually pay higher wages based on how they value
their workers’ endowments, but this wage premium was overshadowed by the superior endowments of workers in large firms and
a residual differential in favor of large firms.
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Paul HettlerEmail: |
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Joseph J. Sabia 《Journal of Labor Research》2009,30(1):75-97
Proponents of state and federal minimum wage increases argue that past minimum wage hikes have not adversely affected retail
employment. However, the existing empirical evidence is mixed. This study uses monthly data from the 1979–2004 Current Population
Survey to provide new estimates of the effect of minimum wage increases on retail employment and hours worked. The findings
suggest evidence of modest adverse effects. A 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 1% decline in retail trade
employment and usual weekly hours worked. Larger negative employment and hours effects are observed for the least experienced
workers in the retail sector. These results are robust across a number of specifications, but are sensitive to controls for
state time trends.
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Joseph J. SabiaEmail: |
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Donald F. Vitaliano 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(2):179-188
Women employed in the New York paper box industry in 1913–1914 earned about 60% of what men did. This paper employs the human
capital framework to analyze the wage differential due to productivity related factors versus discriminatory nepotism towards
men. Years of schooling, years of experience in the paper box trade, and legislative restrictions on working hours of women
account for virtually all of the observed wage differential, both for all men and women in the paper box industry, and between
the skilled occupations of cutters and strippers.
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Donald F. VitalianoEmail: |
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We study the long-term impact of job displacement from a big state owned enterprise as a result of its privatization in a
developing country. Our results suggest large reductions in earnings, which persist throughout the years. However, we also
find that the displaced worker’s post-displacement earnings are in line with competitive market wages, and unrelated to sector
of employment or to tenure losses, indicating that the long-term reduction in earnings as a result of displacement because
of privatization can be traced to the loss of wage rents. Our results indicate that job displacement in SOEs may have very
large redistributive implications for the workers involved but that this loss does not necessarily reflect the loss of specific
human capital associated to these jobs.
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Federico Sturzenegger (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This study examines union wage premiums in the public sector for the 1998–2004 period. Unlike previous studies, our approach
estimates union wage premiums considering differences in the rewards to education, experience, and other personal characteristics
for union and non-union workers. The approach provides a larger estimated wage gap than the traditional approach, and allows
for simulations of union–nonunion wage gaps for different types of workers. Moreover, we use an Oaxaca decomposition to explain
the larger union–nonunion wage gap in the private sector in comparison to that in the public sector. We find that between
50% and 60% of the difference in union wage premiums between the private and public sectors is due to differences in the way
unionized workers are rewarded in the private and public sectors, while the remaining portion is due to differences in personal
characteristics of private and public sector workers.
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John D. BitzanEmail: |
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Steven J. Englehardt 《Journal of Labor Research》2009,30(2):135-148
This study estimates the contributions of skill-biased technological change and international trade to the rise in the skill
premium during the 1980s and 90s using the Feenstra and Hanson (Q J Econ 114(3):907–940, 1999) two-stage methodology. Newly available data on high-technology capital provide separate measures of computer and software
investment. New estimates suggest that investment in software contributed to a substantial portion of the observed increase
in the skill premium while investment in computers lead to a reduction in the rate of skill premium growth. Contrary to the
findings of Feenstra and Hanson for the 1980s, neither software nor computers had a significant effect on wages during the
1980s. Foreign outsourcing does not appear to have significantly affected wages during the 1990s. The contribution to theory
is that software is more complementary to increases in worker productivity due to human skills. Computers, on the other hand,
reduced the growth of wage inequality by giving unskilled labor a more efficient set of tools with which to work.
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Steven J. EnglehardtEmail: |
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We test the hypothesis that in an economic recovery, unionization negatively affects job creation. We examine state-level
job growth following two recent recessions, those with troughs in November 1982 and March 1991. In the five years following
the troughs, we assess whether variations across states in union membership and right-to-work laws affect the rate of job
growth. We find evidence that links union influence to slower job growth during an economic recovery, a finding consistent
with previous studies reporting that unions negatively affect average employment and employment growth.
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Robert KrolEmail: |
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This paper provides a multilayered analysis of how lesbian mothers and gay fathers construct their families in a social context
that has been described by Steven Seidman (2004) as “beyond the closet.” We stress how our participants’ family-building experiences are comparable to other non-biologically
related families, but distinct due to heterosexual dominance. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with 18 lesbian birth
mothers and 22 gay fathers, the authors discuss how participants navigate heterosexual dominance in institutions and in personal
interactions.
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Dana BerkowitzEmail: |
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Nasser Daneshvary C. Jeffrey Waddoups Bradley S. Wimmer 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(4):365-379
This paper provides insight into the wage gap between lesbians and heterosexual women. Using data from the 2000 Decennial
Census, we find a lesbian premium that equals approximately 10% for women without a bachelor’s degree, and is nearly non-existent
for women with higher levels of education. These findings are consistent with proposition that the gap between lesbians’ and
heterosexual women’s commitment to the labor market narrows at higher levels of education. We also find that controls for
industry and occupation exert only a small effect on the gap between lesbian and heterosexual women’s wages.
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Bradley S. WimmerEmail: |
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The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This article presents a simple conceptual framework integrating three couple-related outcomes analyzed in this volume: wage
differentials in earnings related to couple formation, household formation (including cohabitation and registration as Registered
Domestic Partnership), and intra-household allocation of income. It also discusses some of the articles’ main findings.
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Lisa K. Jepsen (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Naoko Akashi-Ronquest 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(1):59-81
A remarriage typically involves significant changes in a family’s financial circumstance, and these changes, combined with
the relative bargaining relationship between spouses, likely affect the well-being of the children who are part of the family.
In this paper, I use the separate-spheres model, a theoretical model that explains the determinants of bargaining power in
marriage, to analyze how a remarried couple’s bargaining relationship affects their child investment in stepfamilies. Based
on this theoretical model, I build and estimate an empirical model that investigates the determinants of parental investment.
As evidence of parental preference for biological children over stepchildren, I find that an increased wage rate of a biological
mother significantly improves her child investment when her husband is a stepfather of the child, while there is no such effect
for mothers living with the biological father of the child.
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Naoko Akashi-RonquestEmail: |
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We use unique survey data, collected by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Ontario, to estimate the labor supply response
of disabled male workers to benefit payouts and their post-injury wage. Our data enable us to fill gaps in the existing literature
by estimating the hours as well as the return-to-work response for younger as well as older workers, based on objective rather
than subjective self-reporting of disability status. Our results suggest a strong positive incentive effect from higher wages
a and that lump-sum benefit payouts that are not reduced if earnings increased generally do not have adverse incentives on
the return-to-work and hours decision, except for an income effect over the longer life cycle of younger men. We also discuss
the policy implications of our estimates.
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Morley GundersonEmail: |
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Home ownership has potentially significant consequences for welfare state policy. High owner-occupancy rates may function as private insurance where social spending is low (a substitution effect). Alternatively, state income redistribution policies could raise the number of home owners (an income effect). Cross-national time-series data show that social spending is negatively related to home ownership, and mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and owner-occupancy rates. This suggests that owner-occupancy acts as a form of social insurance over the life course. Future welfare state researchers should consider the issue of home ownership in analyses of inequality and the social safety net.
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Dalton ConleyEmail: |
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Do Work Demands and Resources Predict Work-to-Family Conflict and Facilitation? A Study of Iranian Male Employees 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
This study examined the effects of some work demands-resources on two dimensions of work-to-family interface among Iranian
employees. The results of canonical correlation and multiple-regression showed that among work resources (i.e., social support
and autonomy), social support was associated negatively with work-to-family conflict and autonomy was associated positively
with work-to-family facilitation. Also, among work demands (i.e., job demands and working hours), job demands were associated
with both work-to-family conflict and work-to-family facilitation. Unlike previous studies, working hours shows a positive
association with work-to-family facilitation, which may be explained by the specific cultural context in Iran. The findings
of the study will be of importance to employees and organizations.
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Aboulghasem NouriEmail: |
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J. R. Shackleton 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(3):454-476
Since the Labor Party returned to power in 1997, a substantial increase in employment regulation has occurred in the United
Kingdom. Britain has enacted new laws on labor union recognition, introduced a national minimum wage, enhanced employment
protection legislation, strengthened anti-discrimination legislation, and imposed many new obligations on employers. Employment
regulation should not, however, be looked at in isolation. The potential for job loss implicit in some of the Blair administrations’
regulation has been offset by other factors which have broadly supported labor market flexibility. This does not mean that
further regulation can be imposed with impunity. Although the UK labor market continues to perform better than those of the
large continental European economies, its competitiveness may be slipping. When Mr. Blair retires, the prospects may deteriorate.
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J. R. ShackletonEmail: |