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Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and on the Job

How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economicscontains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences essentially...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polachek, Solomon W.
Otros Autores: Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Colección:Research in Labor Economics Ser.
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  • Cover
  • CHANGE AT HOME, IN THE LABOR MARKET, AND ON THE JOB
  • Series Page
  • CHANGE AT HOME, IN THE LABOR MARKET, AND ON THE JOB
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
  • PREFACE
  • Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased*
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual Background
  • 3. Measuring Changes in Homogamy
  • 4. Measuring Changes in Assortative Mating
  • 5. Data
  • 6. Results
  • 6.1 Educational Homogamy
  • 6.2 Assortative Matching over the Life Cycle and Across Cohorts
  • 6.3 Regression and Reverse Regression
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • The Long-term Impact of Work-hour Regulations on Physician Labor Supply
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physician Work-hour Regulations in the United States
  • 3. Conceptual Framework
  • 4. Data and the Effectiveness of the Reform
  • 4.1 Data Construction and Summary Statistics
  • 4.2 First Stage: The Effectiveness of the Reform
  • 5. The Impact on Long-term Labor Supply
  • 5.1 Difference-in-differences Approach
  • 5.2 Estimated Mean Effects
  • 5.3 Potential Threats to Identification
  • 5.4 Distributional Effects
  • 6. Mechanisms
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from Farm Panel Data
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Theoretical Model
  • 3. Data Collection
  • 4. Descriptive Statistics
  • 4.1 Youth and Household Characteristics and Main Occupation of Youth by Gender
  • 4.2 Youth Labor Time Contribution in the Household
  • 5. Empirical Analysis
  • 6. Econometric Results and Discussions
  • 6.1 Testing for Separability
  • 6.2 Drivers of Male Youth Labor Supply
  • 6.3 Drivers of Female Youth Labor Supply
  • 6.4 Trends
  • 6.5 Instruments and FE-IV Estimates
  • 6.6 Robustness
  • 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Minimum Wage Effects: Empirical Evidence from Japan
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Related Literature
  • 3. Japanese Minimum Wage System, Data Source, and Methodology
  • 3.1. Minimum Wage System in Japan
  • 3.2 Data Source
  • 3.3 Identification Strategy
  • 3.4 Analysis Methods
  • 4. Empirical Findings from Simple Graphical Analysis
  • 4.1 Inspecting the Time-oriented and Regional Heterogeneity of Data
  • 4.2 Confirmation of the Regional and Yearly Variation of Minimum Wage
  • 5. Empirical Findings from Econometric Analysis
  • 5.1 Main Results
  • 5.2 Robustness Checks for the Main Results
  • 5.3 Effects on Total Wages
  • 5.4 Offsetting an Increase in the Current Wage Cost
  • 5.5 Minimum Wage Impacts on Full- and Part-time Workers
  • 5.5.1 Relative Impact of Minimum Wage Increase
  • 5.5.2 Separate Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases of Full- and Part-time workers on the Outcomes of Full-time workers