{"title":"The Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes and Benefit Sanctions on Reducing Unemployment Duration","authors":"N. Ahmad, Michael Svarer, Amjad Naveed","doi":"10.1007/s12122-019-09288-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-09288-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"20 1","pages":"202 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12122-019-09288-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52875519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China","authors":"Xiahai Wei, T. Fang, Yang Jiao, Jiahui Li","doi":"10.1007/s12122-019-09286-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-09286-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"356 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12122-019-09286-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52875332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planning for Retirement? The Importance of Time Preferences","authors":"R. Clark, R. Hammond, Christelle Khalaf","doi":"10.1007/s12122-019-09287-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-09287-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"127 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12122-019-09287-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49479862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unintended Displacement Effects of Youth Training Programs in a Directed Search Model","authors":"Marcos Gómez, Francisco Parro","doi":"10.1007/s12122-019-09284-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-09284-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"230 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12122-019-09284-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52875199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Task Followers and Labor Market Outcomes","authors":"Liwen Chen, John Gordanier, Orgul Ozturk","doi":"10.1007/s12122-019-9282-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-019-9282-6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the extent to which children enter into occupations that are different from their father’s occupation, but require similar skills, which we call task following. We consider the possibility that fathers are able to transfer task-specific human capital either through investments or genetic endowments to their children. We show that there is indeed substantial task following, beyond occupational following and that task following is associated with a wage premium of around 5% over otherwise identical workers employed in a job with the same primary task. The size of the premium is similar in magnitude to the size of the premium associated with occupational following. The wage premium is robust to controls for industry, occupation categories and occupation characteristics.","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?","authors":"William E. Even, D. Macpherson","doi":"10.1007/s12122-018-9281-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-018-9281-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12122-018-9281-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43508310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?","authors":"William E. Even, D. Macpherson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3127827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3127827","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPs with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage. The simulations suggest that a 10% increase could cause a 3.4% employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job loss is projected to be concentrated in two industries: accommodation and food services, and retail. While the most populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the smaller counties generally experience a larger percentage point loss in employment due to the lower wages and the greater number of workers that would be affected by the minimum wage hike. Moreover, there is substantial variation across counties in terms of the percentage of jobs lost within a given industry.","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/ssrn.3127827","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43198084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incarceration and Earnings: Distributional and Long-Term Effects","authors":"Christian Brown","doi":"10.1007/s12122-018-9280-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-018-9280-0","url":null,"abstract":"Before and after incarceration, the typical prisoner differs from the typical American in several ways, including education, employment prospects, and earnings. Current research on the effect of incarceration on earnings predominantly uses techniques that characterize incarceration’s effect on mean wages and is limited to observing wages immediately after release. I employ data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a variety of quantile regressions to estimate differential incarceration penalties across the wage and income distribution. I also estimate the long-term effects of incarceration on mean wages, income, and labor supply. Results suggest that the incarceration wage penalty is relatively homogenous across wages, while more severe penalties are estimated at lower income levels, suggestive of incarceration’s deleterious effect on labor supply. Mean earnings and labor supply penalties are most severe in the period after release but gradually diminish over time for releasees that do not experience additional incarceration spells.","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists","authors":"Daniel J. Henderson, Anne-Charlotte Souto","doi":"10.1007/s12122-018-9279-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-018-9279-6","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we overview nonparametric (spline and kernel) regression methods and illustrate how they may be used in labor economics applications. We focus our attention on issues commonly found in the labor literature such as how to account for endogeneity via instrumental variables in a nonparametric setting. We showcase these methods via data from the Current Population Survey.","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differences in Self-Employment Duration by Year of Entry & Pre-Entry Wage-Sector Attachment","authors":"Adela Luque, Maggie R. Jones","doi":"10.1007/s12122-018-9275-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-018-9275-x","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on the self-employed hypothesizes two different paths to self-employment. On the one hand, self-employment is associated with entrepreneurship and a motivation to pursue an opportunity. On the other hand, previous research indicates that people also become self-employed because of limited opportunities in the wage sector. Using a unique set of data that links the American Community Survey to Form 1040 and W-2 records, this paper extends the existing literature by examining self-employment duration for five consecutive entry cohorts, including two cohorts who entered self-employment during the Great Recession. Severely limited labor market opportunities may have driven many in the recession cohorts to enter self-employment, while those entering self-employment during the boom may have been pursuing opportunities under favorable market conditions. To more explicitly test the concept of “necessity” versus “opportunity” self-employment, we also examine the pre-entry wage labor attachment of entrants. Specifically, we ask whether an association exists between wage labor attachment and the duration of self-employment. We also explore whether the demographic/socio-economic characteristics and self-employment exit behavior of the cohorts are different, and if so, how. We find evidence consistent with the existence of “necessity” vs. “opportunity” self-employment types. Even when controlling for local economic conditions and the demographic/socio-economic characteristics of the self-employed, entrants with a more tenuous connection to the wage labor market exit self-employment earlier, and are more likely to transition from self-employment to unemployment.","PeriodicalId":46592,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Research","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}