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202. Written Off.
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MAHARIDGE, DALE
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NEWSPAPER journalists ,AMERICAN journalism ,DEMOCRACY ,EMPLOYMENT of older people ,DOWNSIZING of organizations -- Social aspects ,JOB buyouts ,MIDDLE-aged workers ,NEWSPAPER publishing ,EMPLOYMENT ,JOURNALISM & society - Abstract
The article discusses the author's claim that number of experienced newspaper journalists that are employed in America is declining as of 2016, and it mentions the negative impacts that this trend could have on journalism and democracy in the U.S. Corporate downsizing , job search failures, and opportunities for freelance journalists are addressed. Middle-aged and older employees are examined, along with America's newspaper industry, employee buyouts, and the costs associated with older workers.
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- 2016
203. Interaction of Nativity and Background Variables: Earnings of Foreign-born Doctoral Engineers in the United States.
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ENGINEERS ,DOCTORAL degree ,IMMIGRANTS ,WAGES ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
Foreign-born scientists and engineers who received their doctoral degrees in the U.S. make significant contributions to their fields in the U.S. However, not much research is done on their career outcomes. This paper employs the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) 2008 from the National Science Foundation to examine the earnings of foreign-born doctoral engineers relative to their U.S.-born counterparts in academia, industry, and government. Regression results reveal the negative effect of foreign nativity in all three sectors, but when background variables (demographic, educational, and employment variables) are added into the models, the nativity effect is no longer significant. More importantly, this paper examines the interaction effects of nativity and the background variables to understand under what circumstances nativity affects earnings. Tests of marginal effects show that uniquely in academia, the foreign-born earn less than their native-born counterparts only among those whose rank is other than assistant, associate, or full professor. Also in academia, the foreign-born earn less than their native-born counterparts in the first 6 years after receiving their doctorates but then more in 28-49 years. The interaction effect of nativity and experience is also found in industry, where the foreign-born earn less only in the first 8 years. In government, foreign-born engineers earn less than their nativeborn counterparts among women but not among men. The findings in this paper provide new insight of the nativity effect, interaction effects of background variables with nativity, and differences in these effects by employment sector among a highly educated and selected group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
204. An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States.
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McCann, Wesley, Kowalski, Melissa A., Hemmens, Craig, and Stohr, Mary K.
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FEDERAL laws ,EMPLOYMENT ,CRIMINAL records ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
An impediment to offender reintegration and rehabilitation is so-called collateral consequences—restrictions imposed by state and/or federal laws that apply to people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated. Some laws limit formerly incarcerated individuals' eligibility for certain occupations and professional licensure and substantially restrict employment opportunities. In this paper, we examine bars on employment and licensure and the ways states are addressing issues that impact an individual's ability to obtain lawful employment or licensure. We examine each state's process related to either a restoration of civil rights or a judicial administrative certificate that enables those with a criminal record to have a significantly better chance of obtaining employment or licensure. In particular, we focus on certificates of rehabilitation (COR). These certificates provide the recipient with the right not to be denied employment or licensure solely based on their criminal record. Findings reveal that only 16 states and the District of Columbia have CORs. States with CORs vary considerably in their process for obtaining a certificate, and only one state allows for interstate reciprocity of CORs. We discuss the policy implications of these results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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205. Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence, and Bias.
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Mueller, Andreas I., Spinnewijn, Johannes, and Topa, Giorgio
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UNEMPLOYED people ,JOB applications ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,EMPLOYMENT ,EMPLOYEE selection - Abstract
This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have strong predictive power for job finding, but are not revised downward when remaining unemployed and are subject to optimistic bias, especially for the long-term unemployed. Leveraging the predictive power of beliefs, we find substantial heterogeneity in job finding with the resulting dynamic selection explaining most of the observed negative duration dependence in job finding. Moreover, job seekers' beliefs underreact to heterogeneity in job finding, distorting search behavior and increasing long-term unemployment. (JEL D83, E24, J22, J64, J65) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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206. Annex B. Data sources and data manipulation.
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Ward, Ashley and Zinni, Belen
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WORKING hours ,WAGES ,EMPLOYMENT ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,LABOR supply - Abstract
The article provides information on data sources and data manipulation used for the construction of hours worked and wages matrices. It discusses the scope of household survey on employment, unemployment, labor force participation and individual characteristics covered in the European Union (EU) Labour Force Survey and EU Structure of Earnings Survey, for EU countries and the United Kingdom (UK) and the Canadian Labour Force Survey and the Current Population Survey for Canada and the U.S.
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- 2024
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207. Industrial and Occupational Employment Changes During the Great Recession.
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Sangmin Aum, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, and Yongseok Shin
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EMPLOYMENT changes ,GREAT Recession, 2008-2013 ,LABOR market ,EMPLOYMENT ,FOOD service - Abstract
The U.S. labor market contracted sharply during the Great Recession. The ensuing recovery has been sluggish and by some measures still incomplete. In this paper, we break down aggregate employment during the Recession and the recovery into changes across industries and occupations. There is a clear asymmetric pattern: The contraction is driven by sectors and the recovery by occupations. In particular, the contraction between 2008 and 2010 primarily reflects a steep decline in construction employment, partially mitigated by expansions in the food services, education, and health industries. The recovery first came from a gradual increase in low-skill occupation employment across all sectors but after 2012 from a pronounced increase in high-skill occupation employment across all sectors. This pattern of recovery is a continuation of the underlying trend of polarization across occupations, which commenced in the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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208. The role of informed choice in advancing competitive integrated employment.
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Moore, Ruby and Friedman, Mark
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EMPLOYMENT of people with disabilities -- Law & legislation ,CIVIL rights ,DECISION making ,DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION ,INSTITUTIONAL care ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,GOVERNMENT policy ,GOVERNMENT regulation - Abstract
BACKGROUND: Recent laws, regulations, court cases and policies have included the requirement that people with disabilities be provided the opportunity to exercise informed choice in decision-making to promote inclusion and integration into society. These contemporary developments build on principles established in the early deinstitutionalization litigation, including rights to habilitation and to community settings as a remedy for unnecessary institutionalization. OBJECTIVE: This policy paper examines these regulatory, legal and policy changes to better understand the legal mandate for informed choice and its application to promote competitive integrated employment. METHODS: This policy paper analyzes the foundation of informed choice as presented in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Settings Final Rule, two landmark Department of Justice (DOJ) court cases (Oregon and Rhode Island) regarding shelteredworkshops, the Olmstead decision by the Supreme Court and recent interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The paper includes interpretations of informed choice from key civil rights lawyers in key court cases, reviews of case law, statutes, regulations, policy initiatives, executive orders, state Employment First initiatives and landmark settlement agreements. RESULTS: It is the authors' finding that, in combination, these laws, regulations and policies form a mandate for informed choice and create an affirmative obligation on the part of government entities to provide opportunities for people with disabilities to experience competitive integrated employment outside of sheltered workshops and other segregated settings as integral to making informed choices. CONCLUSIONS: The article posits that informed choice and the resulting affirmative obligation it embodies has not been sufficiently implemented by governmental and other private entities, and additional affirmative steps are needed to fully secure the legally mandated right to informed choice regarding employment services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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209. Determinants of post-congressional lobbying employment.
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Kim, Jin-Hyuk
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EMPLOYMENT ,DECISION making ,LOBBYISTS ,LOBBYING ,EMPIRICAL research - Abstract
This paper studies the determinants of lobbying-employment decisions of former members of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 105th-108th Congresses. The main empirical findings indicate that there are two groups more likely to become lobbyists: members not re-elected who had more conservative voting records and held important committee assignments and longer-serving members who voluntarily retired and voted less conservatively in their last term compared to their previous terms in office. A decomposition analysis confirms that the revolving doors for the two groups of legislators differ because of differences in employer response rather than in legislator characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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210. CASINOS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN UPDATE.
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Walker, Douglas M. and Jackson, John D.
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CASINOS ,ECONOMIC development ,LEGALIZATION ,RECESSIONS ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
As U.S. politicians and voters continue to grapple with the slower-than-expected recovery from the 2007-09 recession, the legalization (or expansion) of commercial casinos has become an increasingly popular policy. Casinos are politically popular because the state government legalizes them, and can thus create a new industry which pays high taxes and may stimulate employment and economic development. Despite the fact that casinos are now widespread in the United States - there are around 1,000 commercial and tribal casinos - the empirical evidence on their economic impacts is still negligible. In two previous studies (we have tested the relationship between state-level casino revenues and per capita income (i.e., economic growth) to provide evidence on whether or not casinos have a positive economic impact on states' economies. We have utilized a Granger causality model modified for use with panel data. Our initial evidence, from a paper published in 1998, indicated that casinos do Granger cause economic growth. However, when we re-tested the model using up-to-date data (at the time, through 2005), we found no significant results. The casino industry has grown extensively since 2005, and although the recession of 2007-09 had a negative impact on the casino industry, the national-level revenue numbers are again climbing. We extend our previous analyses in order to provide updated evidence on the economic growth impact of commercial casinos in the United States. Section 1 provides a more detailed background of our previous analysis and an overview of other relevant literature. Section 2 describes the data and model, and provides the results. Section 3 is a discussion and conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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211. Forecasting the Recovery from the Great Recession: Is This Time Different?
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Dominguez, Kathryn M. E and Shapiro, Matthew D
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ECONOMIC recovery ,GREAT Depression, 1929-1939 ,GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,SAVINGS ,EMPLOYMENT ,RECESSIONS - Abstract
This paper asks whether the slow recovery of the US economy from the trough of the Great Recession was anticipated, and identifies some of the factors that contributed to surprises in the course of the recovery. We construct a narrative using news reports and government announcements to identify policy and financial shocks. We then compare forecasts and forecast revisions of GDP to the narrative. Successive financial and fiscal shocks emanating from Europe, together with self-inflicted wounds from the political stalemate over the US fiscal situation, help explain the slowing of the pace of an already slow recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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212. Access, retention, and effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support in the U.S.: Are there racial or ethnic differences?
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Bond, Gary R., Mascayano, Franco, Metcalfe, Justin D., Riley, Jarnee, and Drake, Robert E.
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PSYCHOSES ,MATHEMATICAL models ,BLACK people ,HISPANIC Americans ,RACE ,HEALTH outcome assessment ,THEORY ,WHITE people ,EMPLOYEE retention ,SUPPORTED employment - Abstract
BACKGROUND: Increased federal attention to advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities suggests the need for data on racial and ethnic differences in evidence-based employment services for people with serious mental illness. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based model of supported employment for this population. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to identify differences based on race and ethnicity in IPS services. METHODS: This narrative review examined the empirical literature on IPS services in the U.S., assessing evidence of differences in access, retention, and effectiveness for Black and Hispanic IPS clients, relative to non-Hispanic Whites. RESULTS: We identified 12 studies examining racial and ethnic differences in access (4 studies), retention (3 studies), and effectiveness (6 studies). The findings for access to IPS were mixed, with two studies showing no differences, one finding less access for Blacks, and another finding greater access for Blacks but less access for Hispanics. Three studies found better retention rates for clients enrolled in IPS regardless of race or ethnicity. Compared to clients receiving usual vocational services, all studies found better employment outcomes for IPS clients regardless of race or ethnicity. CONCLUSION: Unlike for most of health care, few racial and ethnic differences have been found for IPS employment services in the U.S. Access to IPS is inadequate for all groups, with conflicting evidence whether Blacks and Hispanics have even less access. Based on the available evidence, Black and Hispanic clients have comparable retention and employment outcomes in IPS as non-Hispanic White clients. State and local mental health leaders responsible for monitoring IPS outcomes should routinely report statistics on race and ethnicity. They should also give active attention to client needs and equity. Research designs should answer multifaceted questions regarding disparities for historically underserved populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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213. The effects of employment on influenza rates.
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Markowitz S, Nesson E, and Robinson JJ
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Humans, Seasons, United States, Employment statistics & numerical data, Influenza, Human epidemiology, Office Visits statistics & numerical data
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The seasonal influenza virus afflicts millions of people in the U.S. population each year, imposing significant costs on those who fall ill, their families, employers, and the health care system. The flu is transmitted via droplet spread or close contact, and certain environments, such as schools or offices, promote transmission. In this paper, we examine whether increases in employment are associated with increased incidence of the flu. We use state-level data on the prevalence of the flu from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In our preferred specification, we find that a one percentage point increase in the employment rate increases the number of influenza related outpatient health care visits by 19%, and these effects are highly pronounced in the retail sector and healthcare sector, the sectors with the highest levels of interpersonal contact., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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214. The third shift: Multiple job holding and the incarceration of women's partners.
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Bruns A
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Employment statistics & numerical data, Poverty statistics & numerical data, Prisoners statistics & numerical data, Sexual Partners
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A large body of research documents the sensitivity of women's employment to changing family circumstances, but we know little about the relationship between partner incarceration-a common family transition in the lives of disadvantaged women-and employment. Despite reasons to suspect that changes in resources associated with incarceration have consequences for the employment of family members, previous research suggests that partner incarceration does not influence the number of hours women work at their main jobs. This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3835) to examine how partner incarceration is associated with multiple job holding, an alternative strategy for increasing earnings. Results show that women with incarcerated partners are more likely to work multiple jobs than women in otherwise similar circumstances, suggesting partner incarceration is linked to a "third shift"-to additional employment on top of the paid work and caregiving women already do., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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215. Historical perspective on physical employment standards.
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Gebhardt DL
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- Civil Rights history, Civil Rights standards, Employment history, Employment legislation & jurisprudence, Guidelines as Topic, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Humans, Personnel Selection history, Personnel Selection legislation & jurisprudence, Physical Examination history, Right to Work, Social Discrimination history, United States, Workforce history, Workforce legislation & jurisprudence, Employment standards, Personnel Selection standards, Physical Examination standards, Physical Fitness, Workforce standards
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Background: When one thinks of jobs with physical employment standards, the first thoughts typically center around firefighting, law enforcement, and military jobs. However, there are 100s of arduous jobs that exist in the public and private sectors that range from moderately demanding to strenuous. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 28% of the workforce in the United States performs physically demanding jobs that involve construction, machinery installation and repair, public safety, and other professions., Objective: This paper provides a historical perspective of physical employment standards for hiring workers into these arduous jobs, how we arrived at our current knowledge base, and the challenges faced today when determining and implementing physical employment standards., Method: This narrative review draws on evidence from 62 published sources., Results: This paper focuses on the need for a multidisciplinary approach to identifying job requirements, the professions (e.g., medical, psychology, physiology) that underpin the methodologies, and the knowledge used by current researchers. Descriptions of test and cut score development, legal issues, and challenges for the future also are highlighted.
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- 2019
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216. The Impact of Housing Assistance on the Employment Outcomes of Labour Market Programme Participants in Australia.
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Feeny, Simon, Ong, Rachel, Spong, Heath, and Wood, Gavin
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UNEMPLOYMENT insurance ,HOUSING subsidies ,UNEMPLOYMENT statistics ,EMPLOYMENT ,AUSTRALIAN economy, 1945- - Abstract
This paper examines whether the employment outcomes of Australian labour market programme participants vary according to whether they receive housing assistance. This issue attracted attention when a series of US studies showed that clients of welfare-to-work programmes are more likely to achieve positive employment outcomes if housing assistance is also received. This paper tracks the employment outcomes of labour market programme participants utilising six waves of data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) database. Findings from a random effects model suggest that housing assistance status has little impact (either negative or positive) on employment outcomes. Differences in the institutional arrangements governing access to housing assistance could be responsible for the absence of any effect in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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217. Productivity in the services sector: conventional and current explanations.
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Maroto-Sánchez, Andrés
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ECONOMIC development ,SERVICE industries ,GROWTH rate ,ECONOMICS ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
One of the most conventional statements in economics, with regard to the services sector, suggests that, as a whole, this sector has a lower productivity level and growth rates than the other productive sectors. From this approach, we can derive the relative lower productivity in some advanced economies (such as the European countries versus the USA and some particular emergent economies) as an explanation of the growth of the tertiary sector. This paper will look in greater depth at issues related to services productivity, from conceptual aspects regarding the definition and meaning of productivity to methodological and measurement of services productivity. This work is essentially a necessary revision of the literature on economic growth, productivity and the services sector, reviewing not only the conventional literature but also those new waves of thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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218. The influences on bridge employment decisions.
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Pengcharoen, Chanjira and Shultz, Kenneth S.
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RETIREMENT ,EMPLOYMENT ,DECISION making ,EMPLOYMENT of older people ,LABOR laws - Abstract
Purpose -- Population aging, and changes in labor force participation among older adults, will have tremendous impacts on the aging workforce. Thus it is imperative that the factors that influence whether older workers will continue in their career employment, engage in bridge employment, or fully retire, should be understood better. This paper aims to focus on these issues. Design/methodology/approach -- In the present study longitudinal data for 2,869 older workers from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data set in the USA were used to examine the influence of demographic (e.g. income), nonwork related factors (e.g. marital satisfaction), and work related factors (e.g. job involvement) on late-life employment decisions over a ten year period from 1992 to 2002. Findings -- The results indicate a wide variety of factors impact employment decisions later in life. Specifically, it was found that work related factors of job involvement and schedule flexibility, as well as the nonwork related factors of certainty of retirement plans, attitudes toward retirement, and job seeking self-efficacy all distinguished the various employment statuses (e.g. completely retired, partly retirement, and not retired at all) of older workers over a ten year period. Originality/value -- This study shows that both individuals and organizations need to examine a wide variety of factors when examining bridge employment decisions at the end of workers' careers. While most studies of bridge employment use cross-sectional data, this paper uses longitudinal data to examine actual bridge employment decisions, rather that prospective desires or potentially faulty after-the-fact retrospective accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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219. Protection from retaliation for workplace discrimination claims.
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Goldberg, Ilene V. and Sprotzer, Ira
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EMPLOYMENT discrimination ,WORK environment ,EMPLOYEE rights ,JUDGE-made law ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
Purpose -- The specific purpose of this paper is to research the relevant case law with regard to the legality of retaliation for workplace discrimination claims. Design/methodology/approach -- The methodology employed is traditional legal research and analysis. Findings -- This paper examines standards for proving retaliation, along with the impact of recent US Supreme Court decisions on employers and employees. Research implications/implications -- The research provides a framework for evaluating retaliation claims. Originality/value -- This research is of value to both employers and employees in deciding the standards for proving a retaliation claim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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220. Determinants of change in service employment in the United States 1998-2005: findings based on a new classification of industries.
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Beyers, William
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EMPLOYMENT ,CLASSIFICATION ,CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,ECONOMIC research ,SERVICE industries research - Abstract
This paper uses a new classification of employment in the USA based on hierarchical cluster analysis to analyze trends in employment from 1998 to 2005. Measures of growth in employment at the state level are presented, along with selected analyses of correlates of employment change. Specialization in key clusters is related to state growth rates, and the markets of the clusters are identified through the use of input-output data. Shifting consumption patterns are examined for clusters with strong household markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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221. WINNING PAPERS IN THE 2003-2004 LOUIS JACKSON NATIONAL STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION IN EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW.
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WRITING ,CONTESTS ,SCHOOL contests ,EMPLOYMENT ,LABOR - Abstract
Provides information about the Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition, sponsored by the law firm Jackson Lewis in the U.S. Engagement of the Jackson Lewis firm in the practice of employment, labor, and benefits law; Administration of the contest by the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Criteria of the competition.
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- 2005
222. Methodologies a la carte: an examination of emerging qualitative methodologies in social research.
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Gwyther, Gabrielle and Possamai‐Inesedy, Alphia
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SOCIAL science research ,QUALITATIVE research ,EMPLOYMENT ,CULTURE - Abstract
The growth and employment of non-traditional research methods have increased dramatically over the last few decades, especially within the USA and the UK. With the increase of globalisation of research these new methodologies are gaining use and credibility within the human disciplines in Australia. The following paper examines the new methodologies movement from an historical context, funding perspective and as part of the wider, morally oriented 'culture wars' that have been playing out on the main arena of Australian socio-political life over the past decade. In an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of some of the issues, challenges and benefits of these new methodologies the paper proceeds to examine some of the methods involved in arts-based social inquiry. It argues that regardless of the increased call to employ engaged and innovative research, the constraints of the Australian funding and political environment has resulted in the maintenance and dominance of traditional methodological approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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223. Highway infrastructure and state-level employment: A causal spatial analysis.
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Jiwattanakulpaisarn, Piyapong, Noland, Robert B., Graham, Daniel J., and Polak, John W.
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ROAD construction ,EMPLOYMENT ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,MATHEMATICAL models ,TIME series analysis - Abstract
This paper analyses the causal relationship between highway infrastructure and employment within the U.S. We estimate dynamic panel models in a vector autoregressive framework using time-series cross-sectional data on lane miles of roadway capacity and private sector employment for the 48 contiguous states over the period 1984–1997. The issue of spatial dependence is explicitly taken into account by means of a spatial filtering technique. Our analysis reveals evidence of employment growth temporally influenced by annual growth in the provision of major highways within the same state and all other states, as well as the other way around. However, the results show that the existence and direction of these temporal and spatial effects depend on the type of highways and time lags considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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224. Are Nonprofits More Equitable than For-Profits? An Estimate of the Gender Pay Gap in the U.S. Human Services Field.
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Zhao, Rong
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EMPLOYMENT discrimination ,EMPLOYMENT ,PROPRIETARY health facilities ,LABOR market ,LABOR supply ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,NONPROFIT organizations ,REGRESSION analysis ,SEX discrimination ,SURVEYS ,WAGES ,ECONOMIC status ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Using a nationally representative dataset, this paper examines the nonprofit/for-profit difference in the gender pay gap specifically within the human services field. This industry-specific analysis is necessary because nonprofit organizations are concentrated in these fields. Unlike the conventional finding (based on economy-wide analyses) that the gender pay gap is smaller in nonprofits, this study does not find a significant nonprofit/for-profit difference in the gender pay gap within the human services. In addition, it examines the nonprofit pay differential for both female and male human services workers relative to their for-profit counterparts and finds an overall wage premium for nonprofit men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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225. Artificial Intelligence in Health Care? Evidence from Online Job Postings.
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GOLDFARB, AVI, TASKA, BLEDI, and TEODORIDIS, FLORENTA
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,MEDICAL care ,JOB postings ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
The article reports on the adoption of artificial intelligence in health care based on evidence gathered from online job postings in the U.S. from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018. Topics discussed include impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare transformation, the fraction of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills according to an industry classification system code, and the possible impact of artificial intelligence adoption on healthcare employment.
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- 2020
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226. Risks of opioid abuse among uninsured primary care patients utilizing a free clinic.
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Kamimura, Akiko, Panahi, Samin, Rathi, Naveen, Weaver, Shannon, Pye, Mu, Sin, Kai, and Ashby, Jeanie
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SUBSTANCE abuse risk factors ,IMMIGRANTS ,SUBSTANCE abuse ,CLINICS ,EMPLOYMENT ,HEALTH facilities ,HISPANIC Americans ,HEALTH policy ,NARCOTICS ,PRIMARY health care ,RISK assessment ,SELF-evaluation ,SURVEYS ,WAITING rooms ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,MEDICALLY unexplained symptoms - Abstract
The annual number of opioid prescriptions for pain relief has been increasing in the United States. This increase has raised concerns about prescription opioid abuse and overdose. The purpose of this study was to examine opioid risks (risk factors that increase the chance of opioid abuse) among uninsured primary care patients utilizing a free clinic. Data were collected using a self-administered paper survey in the waiting room of the free clinic from May to July 2017 (N = 506). Higher levels of somatic symptoms were associated with higher levels of opioid risks. U.S.-born English speakers had higher levels of opioid risk than non–U.S.-born English speakers and Spanish speakers. Being employed was associated with higher levels of opioid risk while attending college or being postcollegiate was related to lower levels of opioid risk. Research surrounding best practices, prescription trends, and population risk is vital in driving health and social policy. Further research would benefit from examining where people are obtaining opioids. In addition, further research on opioid abuse among Hispanic populations would be beneficial. Finally, future studies should examine how prescribing practices are different among free clinic health professionals in comparison to health care professionals working in-patient or at for-profit clinics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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227. Setting the agenda for multiple sclerosis rehabilitation research.
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Kraft, G. H., Johnson, K. L., Yorkston, K., Amtmann, D., Bamer, A., Bombardier, C., Ehde, D., Fraser, R., and Starks, H.
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MULTIPLE sclerosis ,DEMYELINATION ,MYELIN sheath diseases - Abstract
Background Recognizing the need for more evidence-based multiple sclerosis (MS) rehabilitation, in the mid-2000s several initiatives were undertaken to explore why there had been a paucity of such research and to determine strategies to reverse this pattern. Expert-Opinion-Paper In 2004 the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) convened an expert opinion panel, reviewed evidence-based MS rehabilitation research, and published the paper on the web. It was concluded that much of the MS rehabilitation carried out was based on experience, with little research backing it up. Increasing the Quality and Quantity of MS Rehabilitation Research Largely as a result of the conclusions of the Expert-Opinion-Paper, the NMSS convened a conference of a large number of MS and rehabilitation experts in New York in May, 2005. This conference made many recommendations of ways to increase the quantity and quality of MS research. State of the Science Conference In September, 2006, a follow-up conference was held in Washington, D.C… This conference, primarily sponsored by the University of Washington Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MS RRTC), focused on some of the under-studied "hidden" disabilities present in persons with MS. This paper discusses the details and recommendations of these latter two conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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228. The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA.
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Blau, David and Tekin, Erdal
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CHILD care ,SINGLE mothers ,EMPLOYMENT ,PUBLIC welfare ,LEAST squares - Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform in the USA. We used data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families to analyze the determinants of receipt of a child care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, unemployment, and welfare participation. Ordinary least-squares estimates that treat subsidy receipt as exogenous show an effect of subsidy receipt on employment of about 13 percentage points. Two-stage least-squares estimates that treat subsidy receipt as endogenous and use county dummies as identifying instruments show an effect of 33 percentage points on employment, 20 percentage points on unemployment, and no effects on schooling and welfare receipt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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229. Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation in the United States: 1967 to 2003.
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Brusentsev, Vera
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AGE & employment ,EMPLOYMENT ,LABOR market ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,LABOR supply ,WOMEN employees - Abstract
This paper describes the changes in the employment choices of prime working-age women from 1967 to 2003. A neoclassical labor market participation model is presented and applied to data from the March Current Population Surveys (CPS). The paper provides a new insight: It highlights the different patterns of labor force participation by family-status categories. Also, the paper introduces the average annual unemployment rate at the state level as an explanatory variable to capture the demand-side constraint of the labor market. The results of the paper support the finding that since 1990, the increase in the participation of women in the labor force has slowed from previous decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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230. Growth and change in U.S. micropolitan areas.
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Mulligan, Gordon F. and Vias, Alexander C.
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METROPOLITAN areas ,EMPLOYMENT ,POPULATION ,ECONOMIC structure ,ECONOMETRIC models ,ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMIC policy - Abstract
The U.S. Census Bureau has now recognized micropolitan places, which are sometimes called emerging metropolitan areas or mini-metros. After the 1990 census, a total of 581 different non-metropolitan counties, forming 496 consolidated micropolitan areas, were assigned to this new settlement category. The first half of the paper analyzes the evolving geographic distribution and the shifting employment attributes (emphasizing job specialization) of these places during 1980–2000. Changes in the U.S. micropolitan landscape, reflecting the impressive growth of these places during the late 20th century, mirror other well-known national demographic and economic trends. The second half of the paper analyzes simultaneous population and employment change in micropolitan counties, using a series of partial adjustment models that control for various demographic, economic, and geographic factors. Evidently (initial and adjusted) population levels have induced both employment and population change in these places, but employment levels have failed to have the same impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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231. Tax relief for breadwinners or caregivers? The designs of earned and child tax credits in five Anglo-American countries.
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Nolan, Patrick
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TAX credits ,EMPLOYMENT ,PUBLIC welfare ,FINANCIAL aid - Abstract
Efforts to reconcile work-life balance goals are at the heart of the design of tax-benefit programs. Yet this relationship between work-life balance and tax-benefit programs is relatively unexplored. To help address this lacuna this paper compares approaches to reconciling work-life balance goals in the designs of earned and child tax credits in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These designs indicate different approaches to reconciling work-life balance. In their design of earned and child tax credits the United States places emphasis upon targeting tax relief by paid employment (to breadwinners), Australia and Canada by family structures (to caregivers), and New Zealand and the United Kingdom by both paid employment and family structures, although in New Zealand assistance is provided on a more residual basis. Of these designs the dual objective approach, particularly of the United Kingdom, appears to offer greater opportunity for both directly addressing relatively high rates of child poverty and increasing low wage caregivers' labor supply (as part of a broader poverty reduction strategy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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232. Cross-country analysis of high employment-generating industries.
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Valadkhani, Abbas
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INDUSTRIES ,EMPLOYMENT ,ECONOMICS ,FOOD industry ,TOBACCO industry ,CHEMICAL industry - Abstract
The objective of this paper is to identify high employment industries in Australia, Japan and the USA using input–output (IO) analysis. It is found that (1) the high and low employment-generating industries in 1980 and/or 1990 are almost the same as those in 1997. Thus on a relative basis, there is no evidence that high employment-generating industries have changed since 1980; and (2) the high and low employment-generating industries are very similar across these three countries. Four of the consistently high employment-generating industries in these countries are Food, Beverage and Tobacco; Chemicals, Petroleum, Coal, Rubber & Non-Metallic Minerals; Basic Metals/Fabricated Products; and Electricity, Gas and Water, with the first three industries being part of manufacturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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233. Economic growth and income inequality: the case of the US.
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Yu Hsing
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INCOME inequality ,HUMAN capital ,EMPLOYMENT ,METHODOLOGY ,UNITED States economy - Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of income inequality on economic growth in the US. Design/methodology/approach - This paper applies the endogenous growth model including human capital and technological progress. The generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) technique is applied to estimate regression parameters. The number of patents granted is chosen to measure technological progress. Percentage of people 25 years old and over who have completed 4 years of college or more is selected to measure human capital. Findings - The findings show that a higher Gini index hurts economic growth Economic growth has a positive relationship with the growth in civilian employment investment spending, technological progress, and human capital. When three other indicators of income inequality are considered, similar conclusions can be reached. Research limitations/implications - A major implication is that a deterioration of inequality would be harmful to economic growth. Originality/value - Major contributions of the paper are to consider human capital in the model and different measures of inequality in empirical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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234. Who really pays for health insurance? The incidence of employer-provided health insurance with sticky nominal wages.
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Sommers, Benjamin and Sommers, Benjamin D
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EMPLOYER-sponsored health insurance ,HEALTH insurance ,EMPLOYEE benefits ,INSURANCE premiums ,WAGES ,MATHEMATICAL models ,HEALTH maintenance organizations ,INSURANCE statistics ,WAGE statistics ,MEDICAL care cost statistics ,COMPARATIVE studies ,EMPLOYMENT ,INSURANCE ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL care costs ,MEDICAL cooperation ,RESEARCH ,TAXATION ,USER charges ,EVALUATION research ,STATISTICAL models ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper addresses two seeming paradoxes in the realm of employer-provided health insurance: First, businesses consistently claim that they bear the burden of the insurance they provide for employees, despite theory and empirical evidence indicating that workers bear the full incidence. Second, benefit generosity and the percentage of premiums paid by employers have decreased in recent decades, despite the preferential tax treatment of employer-paid benefits relative to wages-trends unexplained by the standard incidence model. This paper offers a revised incidence model based on nominal wage rigidity, in an attempt to explain these paradoxes. The model predicts that when the nominal wage constraint binds, some of the burden of increasing insurance premiums will fall on firms, particularly small companies with low-wage employees. In response, firms will reduce employment, decrease benefit generosity, and require larger employee premium contributions. Using Current Population Survey data from 2000-2001, I find evidence for this kind of wage rigidity and its associated impact on the employment and premium contributions of low-wage insured workers during a period of rapid premium growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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235. Employability, Skills Mismatch and Spatial Mismatch in Metropolitan Labour Markets.
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Houston, Donald
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LABOR market ,EMPLOYABILITY ,LABOR supply ,EMPLOYMENT ,VOCATIONAL education - Abstract
The skills mismatch and spatial mismatch perspectives are often presented as competing explanations of the spatial distribution of unemployment within metropolitan areas. This paper argues that the spatial mismatch hypothesis addresses some of the shortcomings of the skills mismatch perspective, while not denying the importance of skills mismatch. The development of the spatial mismatch hypothesis in the US is traced, before considering its relevance in the British context. A framework in which to conceptualise and reconcile skills mismatch and spatial mismatch within metropolitan areas is developed, incorporating the operation of local housing and labour markets as well as the role of commuting. The paper concludes by arguing that skills and spatial mismatches reinforce each other and that the concept of employability offers some potential to help understand how job searchers and employers make decisions in situations of skills and/or spatial mismatch. The implications for future research are highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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236. Negative Self Selection into Self-Employment among African Americans.
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Kawaguchi, Daiji
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SELF-employment ,EMPLOYMENT of African Americans ,EMPLOYMENT discrimination ,RACE discrimination ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This paper attempts to shed light on the mechanism behind the lower rate of self-employment (SE) among African Americans compared with whites. Both consumer discrimination and discrimination in the credit market, combined with anti-discrimination law enforcement in the salary/wage (SW) sector, explain why African Americans, those with high earning capacity in particular, are less likely to be SE because the cost of being discriminated against is high. Borjas and Bronars (1989) tested negative self-selection into SE among African Americans using Heckman's sample-selection correction under certain excluded variable assumptions. Using matched CPS panel data, this paper tests the same prediction without relying on any excluded variable assumptions. More specifically, current SW workers are divided into future SW and SE workers, and the distributions of the current earnings of these two groups are compared. The analysis reveals both positive and negative self-selection into SE among whites, but almost only negative self-selection among African Americans. This finding is consistent with the theoretical predictions of consumer and credit market discrimination against African-American self-employed workers and confirms Borjas and Bronars (1989)'s empirical results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2005
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237. Marketization of household production and the EU–US gap in work.
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Freeman, Richard B. and Schettkat, Ronald
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WOMEN'S employment ,EMPLOYMENT ,HOUSEHOLDS ,HOME economics ,HOUSEKEEPING - Abstract
Employment rates and hours worked per employee are very different in the EU and the US. This paper relates the greater time worked in the US to greater marketization in the US of traditional household production: food preparation, childcare, elderly care, cleaning houses. Since women do most household work, marketization is particularly relevant to the EU–US difference in hours worked by women. We suggest that to raise employment rates the EU should develop policies that make it easier for women to move from the household to the market and to substitute market goods and services for household production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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238. How Employees’ Prior Affiliations Constrain Organizational Network Change: A Study of U.S. Venture Capital and Private Equity.
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Rider, Christopher I.
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EMPLOYEES ,VENTURE capital ,PRIVATE equity ,EMPLOYMENT ,DATA analysis ,INVESTMENTS - Abstract
This paper investigates how organizations’ reliance on employees’ prior educational and employment affiliations for both employment relationships and interorganizational relationships contributes to inertia in organizational networks. Analyses of data from U.S. venture capital and private equity firms support the theory I develop. First, increasing differences in educational prestige decrease both interpersonal co-employment rates and interorganizational co-investment rates. Second, two individuals who share a prior educational or a prior employment affiliation are more likely to be employed by the same organization than are two individuals who do not share such an affiliation. Third, the likelihood of two organizations forming a co-investment relationship increases with the number of prior educational or employment affiliations shared by their employees. I propose that these tendencies stabilize advantaged organizations’ positions and limit disadvantaged organizations’ positional mobility, thereby constraining change in interorganizational networks. Implications for studies of network evolution and socioeconomic inequality are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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239. Monetary Policy 101: A Primer on the Fed's Changing Approach to Policy Implementation.
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Ihrig, Jane, Meade, Ellen E., and Weinbach, Gretchen C.
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MONETARY policy ,EMPLOYMENT ,INTEREST rates ,FINANCIAL crises ,FEDERAL funds market (U.S.) - Abstract
The Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy in order to achieve its statutory mandate of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates as prescribed by the Congress and laid out in the Federal Reserve Act. For many years prior to the financial crisis, the FOMC set a target for the federal funds rate and achieved that target through small purchases and sales of securities in the open market. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, with a superabundant level of reserve balances in the banking system having been created as a result of the Federal Reserve's large scale asset purchase programs, this approach to implementing monetary policy will no longer work. This paper provides a primer on the Fed's implementation of monetary policy. We use the standard textbook model to illustrate why the approach used by the Federal Reserve before the financial crisis to keep the federal funds rate near the FOMC's target will not work in current circumstances, and explain the approach that the Committee intends to use instead when it decides to begin raising short-term interest rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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240. Losing Reporters Where It Matters Most.
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Vick, Karl
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LAYOFFS ,NEWSPAPER journalists ,REPORTERS & reporting ,WAGES ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
The article discusses layoffs involving reporters at "The New York Daily News" newspaper in 2018, and it mentions the Tronc Inc. (Tronc) American newspaper and media publishing firm. A lack of newspaper advertising revenue is addressed, along with the success and failure of various newspapers such as "The New York Times" in the wake of businessman Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Salaries for newspaper reporters are assessed.
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- 2018
241. Trends in Local Park and Recreation Department Finances and Staffing from 1964-65 to 1999-2000.
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Crompton, John L. and Kaczynski, Andrew T.
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OUTDOOR recreation ,PARKS ,GOVERNMENT agencies ,LOCAL government ,PUBLIC spending - Abstract
The comprehensive data set used in this paper was derived from local government entities in the U.S. for the period 1964-65 to 1999- 2000. These data are collected by the Census Bureau from all 87,000 units of local government in years ending in "2" or "7". In the non-census years the data are collected from a survey of approximately 13,000 non-school local governments, selected by a size-based sampling procedure. Self-generated revenues increased substantially over this period and by the end of it approximately one out of every three operating dollars allocated for parks and recreation came from user sources. Analysis of total local government expenditures on parks and recreation using constant, adjusted dollars revealed that there was an average annual decrease in the 1976-77 to 1985-86 period of $13 million. This was the era in which the tax limitation movement peaked and it was subject to the severe economic recession in the early 1980s. In contrast, increases in annual expenditures in the most recent 1994-95 to 1999-2000 era averaged $595 million. This level of expenditure was unprecedented, suggesting that in the future when these data are reviewed from an historical perspective, this period may be considered to be the field's "golden era". Typically, approximately one-quarter of annual budgets were for capital projects and these increased in constant, adjusted dollars by 58% between 1993-94 and 1999-2000. In 1999-2000, $5.8 billion in actual dollars was invested in capital projects in parks and recreation by local governments. It was estimated that capital investment in the 1964-65 to 1999-2000 period exceeded $70 billion (adjusted 1990 dollars), while tax support for operating expenses over the same period increased by less than 5%. Per capita expenditures on local parks and recreation averaged $74.58 in the U.S. in 1999-2000, of which $20.87 was invested in capital projects and $53.72 was for operating expenses. These national averages obscured an extraordinary range of differences among the states where total per capita expenditures ranged from $20.58 in Vermont to $179.21 in North Dakota. The number of full-time employees in the field hired by local entities was 145,000 in 1977-78 and 142,000 in 1996-97. In the last three years of the 1990s, it increased to 153,000. During this period, part-time employees increased from 26,000 to 172,000. On average, it was estimated that approximately one full-time staff member has been hired for each $9 million of capital investment in the 1978-79 to 1999-2000 period. During this same period, it was estimated that approximately 94,000 full and part-time positions had been contracted out to the private sector to do work that was previously done by public sector employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
242. Assessing the Change in Labor Market Conditions.
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Chung, Hess T., Fallick, Bruce, Nekarda, Christopher J., and Ratner, David D.
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LABOR market ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,EMPLOYMENT ,JOB vacancies ,EMPLOYEE selection ,LAYOFFS ,UNITED States economy, 2009-2017 ,ECONOMIC indicators - Abstract
This paper describes a dynamic factor model of 19 U.S. labor market indicators, covering the broad categories of unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers' and businesses' perceptions. The resulting labor market conditions index (LMCI) is a useful tool for gauging the change in labor market conditions. In addition, the model provides a way to organize discussions of the signal value of different labor market indicators in situations when they might be sending diverse signals. The model takes the greatest signal from private payroll employment and the unemployment rate. Other influential indicators include the insured unemployment rate, consumers' perceptions of job availability, and help-wanted advertising. Through the lens of the LMCI, labor market conditions have improved at a moderate pace of over the past several years, albeit with some notable variation along the way. In addition, from the perspective of the model, the unemployment rate declined a bit faster over the past two years than was consistent with the other indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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243. Is Racial Exclusion Gendered? The Role of Residential Segregation in the Employment Status of Black Women and Men in the US.
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Dickerson, Niki T.
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EMPLOYMENT discrimination ,AFRICAN American women ,EMPLOYMENT of African Americans ,AFRICAN American men ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This paper explores one angle of the race/gender/class intersection by examining the effect of residential segregation on black women and men's employment status in the US. Do the exclusionary mechanisms embedded in racially-based residential segregation affect black women and men's economic outcomes similarly, or are their employment outcomes differentiated by their different gender statuses? This paper lays out a theoretical framework for understanding the role residential segregation may play in shaping black men and women's labor market outcomes, outlining key mechanisms that link residential segregation to labor market inequality, highlighting the ways in which many of these mechanisms are gendered as well as racialized. This paper also offers an analytic design to test the hypotheses developed in this exploration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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244. SINGLE WOMEN'S LABOR SUPPLY ELASTICITIES: TRENDS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS.
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BISHOP, KELLY, HEIM, BRADLEY, and MIHALY, KATA
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SINGLE women ,LABOR supply ,LABOR market ,WOMEN'S wages ,ELASTICITY (Economics) ,WORKING hours ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This paper uses CPS data to examine changes in single women's labor supply elasticities in recent decades. Specifically, the authors investigate trends in how single women's hours of work and labor force participation rates responded to both wages and income over the years 1979--2003. Results from the base specification suggest that over the observation period, hours wage elasticities decreased by 82%, participation wage elasticities by 36%, and participation income elasticities by 57%. These results imply that changes in tax policy had a much larger effect on the labor supply and labor force participation behavior of women in this subpopulation in the early 1980s than in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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245. An Investigation into the Effects of Ethnicity and Immigration on Self-Employment.
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Lunn, John and Steen, Todd P.
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EMPLOYMENT ,FREELANCERS - Abstract
This paper examines self-employment across industries and states in the U.S. It attempts to determine whether self-employment is due more to pull or push factors and whether one or the other model fits some industries better or fits some states better. The 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples from the U.S. Census Bureau are used in the empirical analysis. It is found that self-employment rates differ considerably across ethnic groups, and that the rate of self-employment tends to be higher for immigrants. This paper also finds that increasing urbanization tends to reduce self-employment rates while the shift from manufacturing to service industries tends to increase self-employment rates. (JEL J23) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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246. The Academic Labor Market for Economists: 1995-96.
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Stock, Wendy A., Alston, Richard M., and Milkman, Martin
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JOB hunting ,EMPLOYMENT ,ECONOMISTS - Abstract
This paper provides a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the job market for economists using new survey data on job search and employment experiences for a recent cohort of market participants. Several empirical facts are established about the labor market for economists based on separate surveys of job market applicants and chairs of programs advertising job openings in economics. In addition to providing descriptive statistics, this paper examines methods to reduce the costs of job search and recruiting and describes how market outcomes differ by department rank. Such information is of interest to current and future market participants, to advisors of job candidates, and to search committees. (JEL J4, J44, J20) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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247. THE IMPACT OF LEGAL AGE DISCRIMINATION ON WOMEN IN PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS.
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Kurland, Nancy B.
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AGE discrimination in employment ,WOMEN'S employment ,SEX discrimination against women ,AGE & employment ,SEX discrimination in employment ,EMPLOYEE selection ,EMPLOYMENT of older people ,PROFESSIONAL employees ,EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This paper describes how anticipated age discrimination in the form of disparate treatment induces behavior that in effect constitutes gender discrimination. Potential employers often exhibit a common pattern of behavior that acts to discriminate against older workers entering a specific workplace. Women, at a decision-making point early in their lives, are aware of this pattern of discrimination. They perceive that it is important for them to establish their careers before they have a family because it will be more difficult for them to enter the work force at a later age and excel at their careers. This anticipated age discrimination disparately impacts women, resulting in gender discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
248. Market Watch.
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PAPER industry ,EMPLOYMENT ,PRINTING industry - Abstract
Presents news items related to the paper industry of the U.S. as of April 2003. Increase in the employment in industry from December 2002 to January 2003; Effect of decrease in printing equipment's prices on the growth of industry.
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- 2003
249. The Surprisingly Swift Decline of US Manufacturing Employment†.
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Pierce, Justin R. and Schott, Peter K.
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EMPLOYMENT ,TWENTY-first century ,UNITED States economy ,EXPORTERS ,FOREIGN corporations ,UNEMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This paper links the sharp drop in US manufacturing employment after 2000 to a change in US trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries more exposed to the change experience greater employment loss, increased imports from China, and higher entry by US importers and foreign-owned Chinese exporters. At the plant level, shifts toward less labor-intensive production and exposure to the policy via input-output linkages also contribute to the decline in employment. Results are robust to other potential explanations of employment loss, and there is no similar reaction in the European Union, where policy did not change. (JEL D72, E24, F13, F16, L24, L60, P33) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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250. Seasonal adjustment of hybrid time series: An application to U.S. regional jobs data.
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Phillips, Keith R. and Jianguo Wang
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EMPLOYMENT ,SEASONAL unemployment ,EMPLOYMENT statistics ,ECONOMIC activity - Abstract
Hybrid time series data often require special care in estimating seasonal factors. Series such as the state and metro area Current Employment Statistics produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are composed of two different source series that often have two different seasonal patterns. In this paper we address the process to test for differing seasonal patterns within the hybrid series. We also discuss how to apply differing seasonal factors to the separate parts of the hybrid series. Currently, for state employment data, the BLS simply juxtaposes the two different sets of seasonal factors at the transition point between the benchmark part of the data and the survey part. We argue that the seasonal factors should be extrapolated at the transition point or that an adjustment should be made to the level of the unadjusted data to correct for a bias in the survey part of the data caused by differing seasonal factors at the transition month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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