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The Interaction of Metropolitan Cost-of-Living & the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?

Thompson, Jeffrey P; Fitzpatrick, Katie - 2009

This paper explores the interaction between the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the cost-of-living faced by single mothers. After the 1993 EITC expansion, we identify up to a 10 percentage point increase in labor force participation for single mothers in the lowest cost areas but no...

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Three Essays on Poverty Analysis

Chavez-Martin del Campo, Juan Carlos - 2005

This dissertation is a collection of three essays that cover issues in poverty analysis. The first essay (Partial Identification of PovertyMeasures with Contaminated and Corrupted Data) applies a partial identification approach to poverty measurement when data errors arenon-classical in the...

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Essays in labor economics with applications to Germany

Abrevaya, Jason (contributor); … - 2011

This dissertation consists of three essays in LaborEconomics. The first chapter estimates the costs for establishments of hires andseparations for a panel of German establishments. The panel records the start and thetermination of the employment of all employees in the surveyed establishments,...

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An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States

Huang, Hsueh-Chin - 2011

This dissertation examines skilled immigration in the context of labor and health economics. The research focuses on … low-skilled. The first essay investigates the wage consequences of high-skilled immigration. The second essay evaluates … skilled U.S. natives. The extensive literature on all immigrants finds no significant impact of immigration on native wages …

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

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14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy, Spring 2006

Angrist, Joshua David - 2006

, immigration, incentives, discrimination, unemployment and unemployment insurance. …

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Immigrant social capital and firm strategic heterogeneity: effects on foreign entry and firm performance.

Hernandez, Exequiel - 2011

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2011. Major: Business Administration. Advisors: Akbar Zaheer, J. Myles Shaver. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 122 pages, appendices A-C.

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Three essays in wage differentials: inequality growth, education standards, and immigration

Gao, Yuan - 2009

Doctor of Philosophy

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Ethnic niches, pathway to economic incorporation or exploitation? Labor market experiences of Latina/os

Saenz, Rogelio (contributor) - 2004

is placed on how immigration status/nativity, gender, nativity, and skin color influences job search activities and wage … general labor market. When examining the stratification factors of immigration/nativity status, gender, and skin color, in …

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Rational Reconstructions of Society

Arnout, van de Rijt - 2007

The dissertation contains four stand-alone studies, chapters 2 through 5. In chapter 1, I highlight commonalities among the studies. In chapter 2, I consider the principle of structural balance - "The friend of a friend is a friend, the enemy of a friend is an enemy, the friend of an enemy is an...

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