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Three essays in labor economics.

Allgrunn, Michael.

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Three essays in labor economics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays in labor economics./
Author:	Allgrunn, Michael.
Description:	128 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3982.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-10A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3381082
ISBN:	9781109413670

Three essays in labor economics.
Allgrunn, Michael.

Three essays in labor economics. - 128 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3982.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2009.

The first of the three essays examines immigrant wage gaps from 1960 to 2000. Previous research has suggested that the U.S.-specific labor market skills of successive immigrant cohorts from declined from 1970 to 1990; that is, compared with earlier cohorts, recent cohorts started off with lower wages relative to natives and assimilated at slower rates. We argue that the decline in immigrant skills within country-of-origin groups is not supported by the long-term evidence. Analysis of US Census data from 1970 to 2000 suggests that the unexplained wage gap after ten years contradicts the hypothesis of declining skills for cohorts after 1965. More broadly, the unexplained wage gap should not be treated solely as an indicator of a change in immigrant cohort skills.

ISBN: 9781109413670Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Three essays in labor economics.
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520 $a The first of the three essays examines immigrant wage gaps from 1960 to 2000. Previous research has suggested that the U.S.-specific labor market skills of successive immigrant cohorts from declined from 1970 to 1990; that is, compared with earlier cohorts, recent cohorts started off with lower wages relative to natives and assimilated at slower rates. We argue that the decline in immigrant skills within country-of-origin groups is not supported by the long-term evidence. Analysis of US Census data from 1970 to 2000 suggests that the unexplained wage gap after ten years contradicts the hypothesis of declining skills for cohorts after 1965. More broadly, the unexplained wage gap should not be treated solely as an indicator of a change in immigrant cohort skills.
520 $a The second essay examines how benefit levels for unemployment insurance (UI) affect the duration of unemployment. Most research on the effects of UI on unemployment duration has been limited by the use of a censored measure of unemployment spells. This essay reexamines the impact of UI benefit levels on unemployment duration using a dataset that allows examination of actual unemployment spells. We find that while censoring concerns are legitimate, the main problem in estimating the impact of UI benefit generosity on the duration of UI benefit receipt and jobless duration is finding exogenous variation in UI weekly benefit amounts. Using a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference approach, we find that the effect of benefit generosity on unemployment duration may be smaller than previously estimated.
520 $a The third essay considers how an increase in the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the duration of unemployment. We examine the extent to which increasing the potential duration of unemployment benefits increases the length of unemployment spells using a national sample of workers who were laid off and claimed unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the recession of the early 1990s. The research design takes advantage of changes in the potential duration of benefits that occurred due to the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991. Our attempts to reconcile the disparate findings of existing research suggest that different econometric estimators can produce substantially different inferences about the effects of increased potential benefit duration. We also find that estimates of the effect of potential benefit duration on weeks of benefit receipt often bear little relation to the estimates of the effect of potential duration on weeks of joblessness.
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