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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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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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Discussions about the role of paid employment in high school students’ lives usually involve untested assumptions about historical trends in the frequency, intensity, and selective nature of students’ employment behaviors. Using several nationally representative data sources, we find few changes in rates of employment or hours worked per week among adolescents since 1940 or among students since 1980. We observe important changes in recent decades in racial/ethnic and gender differences in employment and intensive employment. Finally, we observe that the relationship between students’ intensive employment and high school completion has been stable and persistently significant since the late 1960s.
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John Robert WarrenEmail: |
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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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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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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: |
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Bruce E. Kaufman 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):285-299
The most famous and influential diagram in modern (neoclassical) labor economics is the model of wage determination by supply
and demand. Using concepts and ideas from institutional economics, I argue that the theory of a perfectly competitive labor
market is logically contradictory and, hence, the demand/supply diagram cannot exist on the plane of pure theory. Four other
fundamental theorems concerning labor markets are also derived, as are implications about the theoretical foundation of the
field of industrial relations and the economic evaluation of labor and employment policy.
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Bruce E. KaufmanEmail: |
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Labor Force Supply Decisions of Rural Low-Income Mothers 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Employment is crucial to the economic well-being of families. Using a multi-state sample of 412 rural low-income mothers,
our study identifies factors influencing two employment decisions they make: labor force entry and number of hours supplied.
A logistic regression model correctly predicted 80% of mothers’ work participation decisions. Employed mothers were older,
better educated, and less likely to suffer from depression; as well as, more likely to have a driver’s license and receive
child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit. An estimated labor supply function explained 33% of the variation
in hours worked by the 208 employed rural mothers. Higher wages, availability of health insurance, and overtime benefits predicted
the number of hours they were willing to work.
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Sharon B. SeilingEmail: |
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This paper investigates how the relationship between income and working hours in Taiwan has changed over time. By using the
official individual sample in the Manpower Utilization Surveys from DGBAS during 1981–2006, this study concludes that higher
earners worked fewer hours as the economy is expanding and the price level increases in Taiwan; however, higher earners lose
their time privileges as the economy relies on the service sector more than before. Furthermore, with regard to gender differences,
it is found that higher earners still have time advantages relative to lower earners over time for male, but not so for female.
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Jr-Tsung Huang (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Edward J. Schumacher 《Journal of Labor Research》2009,30(1):9-34
This paper examines the earnings differentials among hospital workers in the public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit
sectors. Utilizing data from the 1995 through 2007 Current Population Surveys, unadjusted earnings are highest in the private
nonprofit sector and lowest in private for-profit firms. Once measurable characteristics are accounted for, health practitioners
in for-profit and nonprofit hospitals earn similar wages while public sector workers earn small but significant wage penalties.
Nonprofit hospitals tend to attract workers with higher levels of skill as measured by schooling and potential experience.
This could be explained in part by worker sorting and lower cost containment incentives in nonprofit hospitals. Wage change
analysis using pooled 2-year panels constructed from the CPS indicate no significant differences in earnings between the three
sectors of employment. Whatever the role of the sector of employment on the overall earnings of hospital workers, there is
sufficient worker mobility within the industry to largely eliminate systematic wage differences across type of hospital.
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Edward J. SchumacherEmail: |
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Evidence suggests a large portion of the gender wage gap is explained by gender occupational segregation. A common hypothesis
is that gender differences in preferences or abilities explain this segregation; women may prefer jobs that provide more “family-friendly”
fringe benefits. Much of the research provides no direct evidence on gender differences in access to fringe benefits, nor
how provision affects wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find that women are more likely
to receive family-friendly benefits, but not other types of fringe benefits. We find no evidence that the differences in fringe
benefits explain the gender wage gap.
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Paul Sicilian (Corresponding author)Email: |
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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: |
13.
Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Discrimination 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
We develop empirical estimates of the return to sexual orientation in the labor market and utilize the 2004 Current Population
Survey to determine if lesbians and gay men are treated differently from their heterosexual counterparts. We find strong evidence
consistent with the hypothesis of discriminatory treatment against gay men, and this evidence differs substantially by occupation.
On the other hand, we find no evidence of discrimination against lesbians. These findings are consistent with priors based
on economic theory of the standard taste for discrimination and statistical discrimination models. The results for both men
and women are consistent across wage and total compensation regressions.
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Edinaldo TebaldiEmail: |
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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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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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Fredrik Heyman 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(1):11-26
I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test the hypothesis of Bertola and Rogerson (Eur Econ Rev 41:1147–1171 1997) of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of
wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the manufacturing sector. The wage compression effect is stronger
on job destruction than on job creation, consistent with downward wage rigidity. Further results include a strong positive
relationship between the fraction of temporary employees and job turnover and a negative relationship between the amount of
working-time flexibility and job reallocation.
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Fredrik HeymanEmail: |
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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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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 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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Married Couples’ Time Allocation Decisions and Marital Stability 总被引:4,自引:4,他引:0
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985–1992, are the data used to simultaneously examine the role of family stability
to both market and household time allocation for both spouses and the role of couples’ time allocation in their probability
of divorce. The study found that increases in the probabilities of divorce were only significantly correlated with decreases
in wife’s housework time. It was also found by the study that increases in the husband’s market work hours and increases in
the wife’s household work hours had negative effects on the probability of divorce.
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Jiahui YanEmail: |