Browsing by Subject "Economics, Labor."
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An Analysis of economic determinants and the related effects on the price elasticity of enrollment demand in four year public institutions of higher education in North Carolina /
(1998)In the current research, logarithm transformations were utilized for several measures since they produce constant elasticities for the related factors. There are alternative methodologies that can be utilized. Some of these ... -
An analysis of the work and family structure incentives generated by Oklahoma's tax and transfer system.
(2001)This study also calculates the family structure incentives present in welfare policy. Contrary to previous work, the author assumes that a couple has three potential family structures: marriage, cohabitation reported to ... -
Barriers and facilitators to participation in adult education experienced by industrial workers.
(1998)There is a serious need to understand the effects of barriers and facilitators on patterns of participation in adult education by blue-collar workers. Analysis of these patterns experienced by production and skilled trades ... -
The determinants of community college faculty attitudes toward unionization.
(1999)This study examines unionization among faculty in higher education. Specifically, C. Wright Mills' theory of white-collar unionism is used to analyze the factors affecting attitudes toward unionization among community ... -
The effect of interruption on earning and labor force participation of married women /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)Taken together, these results suggest that women who drop out of the labor force to raise families cannot expect to earn as much when they return as persons with uninterrupted careers. (Abstract shortened with permission ... -
Housing Wealth, Elderly Labor Outcomes and Financing Retirement
(2015-08)The first chapter of my dissertation uses the restricted access version of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data to examine elderly workers responses to changes in housing wealth, property taxes and financial wealth. ... -
A microeconomic examination of the relationship between occupational gender segregation and taste differences.
(1998)This work examines the impact of taste difference between genders for non-pecuniary work characteristics on occupational outcome. This is accomplished by estimating reservation wages for workers across several job categories. ... -
The model equal opportunity employer.
(1981)When looked at by occupation, there is a great deal of employment discrimination. Employment gaps ranged from -33 percent in the female dominated clerical occupations to 32 percent in the male dominated skilled craft ... -
Spatial aspects of wage inflation within the urban system of the United States.
(1983)The acceleration of inflation and high unemployment have characterized the national economy since the mid-1960's. During this time, the nation's space economy has also experienced a distinct shift in regional growth and ... -
Studies on the international economics of information technology .
(2007)The first study statistically analyzes the relationship between computer technology use and economic productivity using international data. At the end of this first study, the findings show a positive relationship between ... -
Technology and the change in workforce skill: An examination of United States labor markets, 1950-1990.
(1997)In the second half of the dissertation I examine the relationship between changes in skill and alternative measures of technology. The findings of the regression analysis indicate that there is generally a positive ... -
THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT & APPLIED MICRO
(2018-07-26)Chapter 1: China’s National Poor Counties (NPCs) program represents one of the largest anti-poverty efforts ever undertaken in a developing country. In spite of this, no causal analysis has been undertaken to examine whether ... -
Three essays on economics of language
(2020-07-30)My dissertation chapters examine the Economic returns to the proficiency on language use in different contexts. The first chapter challenges some of the standard assumptions imposed in the linear ordinary least model and ...