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作者：Frandsen, Brigham R.
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：This study presents new evidence on the impacts of unionization using administrative data matching workers to employers in a regression discontinuity design. Close union elections exhibit substantial nonrandom selection or manipulation. Estimates accounting for this selection show that unionization substantially decreases payroll, employment, average worker earnings, and establishment survival. Payroll and earnings decreases are driven by composition changes, with older and higher-paid workers...
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作者：Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, V. Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; Ransom, Tyler
作者单位：Pepperdine University; Duke University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences and how these returns have changed over the past 20 years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions that young men make in early adulthood and quantify how they affect wages using a generalized Mincerian specification. Our results highlight the need to account for dynamic selection and changes in composition when analyzing changes in wage retu...
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作者：Wilson, Riley
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：This paper exploits county-level variation in exposure to news about labor markets impacted by fracking to show that access to information about employment opportunities affects migration. Exposure to newspaper articles about fracking increased migration to areas mentioned in the news by 2.4% on average, concentrated among young, unmarried, less educated men. Commuting also increased, sentiment of the news matters, and TV news has an impact. Google searches for fracking and names of states spe...
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作者：Card, David; Lee, David S.; Lemieux, Thomas
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Princeton University; University of British Columbia
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作者：Kuhn, Peter; Yu, Lizi
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Queensland
摘要：We estimate turnover costs in small retail sales teams using daily sales data and an advance notice requirement to address endogeneity concerns. In addition to short-staffing and onboarding costs, we identify two less familiar sources of turnover costs: incumbent workers' recruitment activities and reductions in team morale after a departure is announced. Our estimates of total turnover costs are relatively modest, however: 10% higher turnover is about as costly as a 0.6% wage increase. We att...
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作者：Buchmueller, Thomas C.; Levy, Helen; Valletta, Robert G.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - San Francisco
摘要：We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act-the expansion of Medicaid eligibility-affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed workers. Comparing trends in states that implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we find that the expansion substantially increased insurance coverage and improved access to health care among unemployed workers. We then test whether the expansion affected transitions from unemployment to ...
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作者：Mourifie, Ismael; Siow, Aloysius
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Across states, there is little correlation between a state's marriage rate or cohabitation rate and own population. Within states, there is a positive (no) correlation between a state's marriage (cohabitation) rate and its population growth rate. The Cobb-Douglas marriage matching function (CDMMF), which extends the Choo-Siow MMF to include peer effects, can rationalize these correlations. The model is easy to estimate. The CDMMF is estimated using panel data across US states from 1990 to 2010...
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作者：Jacobson, Mireille; Kogelnik, Maria; Royer, Heather
作者单位：University of Southern California; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Fewer births occur on major US holidays than would otherwise be expected. We use California data to study the nature and health implications of this birth date manipulation. We document 18% fewer births on the day of and just after a holiday. Cesarean sections account for roughly half of the decline. Missing holiday births are displaced to a window of time 11 days before the holiday through 16 days after the holiday. High-risk births are more likely to be rescheduled. Despite the change in tim...
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作者：Wang, Xuening
作者单位：Renmin University of China
摘要：One concern regarding US immigration policies is that skilled workers on temporary visas may be bound to their employers in indentured servitude, giving rise to monopsony power. I investigate this concern by estimating the effect of acquiring permanent residency on the job mobility and earnings of these workers. Using fixed effects models, I find an immediate upsurge in mobility upon permanent residency receipt, primarily driven by voluntary moving being depressed during the employer-sponsored...
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作者：He, Haoran; Neumark, David; Weng, Qian
作者单位：Beijing Normal University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; National Bureau of Economic Research; Renmin University of China
摘要：We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when (time flexibility) or where (place flexibility) one works and in offering different salaries. Application rates are higher for flexible jobs conditional on the salary offered, providing evidence that workers value job flexibility. Moreover, under some plausible conditions our evidence is informativ...
