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AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA BANSAK,CYNTHIA Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Poverty Working Paper No. 03-01. Department of Economics, San Diego State University, January 2003. Also: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/econ/WPSeries/WorkingPaper0301.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4872 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, we examine: (1) the likelihood of taking a contingent job given one's welfare dependency and past poverty status; (2) the probability of being on welfare for different types of contingent workers relative to their non-contingent counterparts; and (3) the likelihood of living in poverty in the near future as a function of past employment in alternative types of contingent jobs. Using data for women from the NLSY79 between 1994 and 1998, we first examine the incidence of poverty and welfare dependency among different types of contingent and non-contingent workers, and describe the personal and job characteristics associated with contingent employment. Following the descriptive evidence, we examine the relationship between welfare participation and contingent work. Given the simultaneity of these outcomes, we estimate a simultaneous equation probit model with sample selection for being employed, while correcting the standard errors for clustering at the individual level. Results from these models indicate that being on welfare has a significant positive effect on the probability of taking a contingent job. However, holding a contingent work contract does not, by itself, increase the likelihood of being on welfare once we control for other characteristics of the contingent job itself -- such as the low pay, lack of fringe benefits, weekly hours of work, unionization, firm size, and industry of employment -- and some of the worker's characteristics -- including educational attainment, occupation as a proxy for skill, tenure, and intermittent work patterns. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA KIMMEL, JEAN Do College Educated Women Reduce Their Motherhood Wage Penalty by Delaying Childbearing? Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2003 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4153 Publisher: Population Association of America Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One of the stylized facts from the past thirty years has been the declining rate of first births before age 30 for all women and the increase rate of first births after age 30 among women with four-year college degrees (Martin 2000). What are some of the factors behind womens decision to postpone their childbearing? We hypothesize that the wage gap often observed between like-educated mothers and non-mothers (Waldfogel 1998) may be mitigated by postponing fertility. We use individual-level data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate a wage equation model that is later on expanded to address fundamental econometric issues and the education/fertility issue at hand. We find that half of the motherhood wage gap of college-educated women can be eliminated by postponing fertility until their thirties, helping us understand the postponement of maternity among educated women and the overall decline in fertility. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA KIMMEL, JEAN Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle IZA Discussion Paper No. 1671, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn, Germany, 2005. Also: http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp%5Fid=1671 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 5135 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into employment, both men and women exhibit procyclical moonlighting probabilities. Likewise, moonlighting hours for male multiple job holders are procyclical. These findings contradict the frequent claim that moonlighting increases during economic downturns due to economic hardship. Instead, moonlighting appears responsive to growing employment opportunities during economic expansions. At any rate, the systematic variation of moonlighting over the business cycle may have implications for the procyclical nature of real wages. --Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA KIMMEL, JEAN Motherhood Wage Gap for Women in the United States: The Importance of College and Fertility Delay Review of Economics of the Household 3,1 (March 2005): 17-48 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 5052 Publisher: Springer Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One of the stylized facts from the past 30 years has been the declining rate of first births before age 30 for all women and the increase rate of first births after age 30 among women with four-year college degrees (Steven P. Martin, Demography, 37(4), 523–533, 2000). What are some of the factors behind womens decision to postpone their childbearing? We hypothesize that the wage difference often observed between like-educated mothers and non-mothers (Jane Waldfogel, Journal of Labor Economics, 16, 505–545, 1998a; Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(1) 137–156, 1998b) may be affected by the postponement of childbearing until after careers are fully established. Hence, we focus on college-educated women because they are typically more career-oriented than their non-college educated counterparts and also the group most often observed postponing maternity. We use individual-level data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) in order to control for individual-level unobserved heterogeneity as well as human capital characteristics, such as actual work experience, in our empirical analysis. We estimate wage equations, first producing base-line results to compare to the existing literature. Then, we expand the basic wage equation model to address fundamental econometric issues and the education/fertility issue at hand. Our empirical findings are two-fold. First, we find that college-educated mothers do not experience a motherhood wage penalty at all. In fact, they enjoy a wage boost when compared to college-educated childless women. Second, fertility delay enhances this wage boost even further. Our results provide an explanation for the observed postponement of maternity for educated women. We argue that the wage boost experienced by college-educated mothers may be the result of their search for family–friendly work environments, which, in turn, yields job matches with more female-friendly firms offering greater opportunities for advanc ement. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA MACH, TRACI LYNN How Have Performance Based Pay Systems Fared During the Past Decade? Evidence from the NLSY79 Working Paper No. 00-05. Department of Economics, San Diego State University, May 2000. Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4832 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA MACH, TRACI LYNN Impact of Families on Juvenile Substance Use Journal of Bioeconomics 4,3 (January 2002): 269-282. Also: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0167-5923/contents Cohort(s): NLSY97 ID Number: 4547 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effect of family composition on juvenile substance use and drug sales using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. The results underscore the importance of having a father figure in the household in deterring juvenile smoking, marijuana use, and drug sale. However, the extent to which father figures affect juvenile substance use and drug sales varies according to their biological link to the youth and the youth's gender. Results further indicate that siblings and their involvement in substance use and drug sales significantly influence youths' own exposure to these delinquent practices. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA MACH, TRACI LYNN Performance Pay and Fringe Benefits: Work Incentives or Compensating Wage Differentials? International Journal of Manpower 24,6 (2003): 672-698 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4768 Publisher: MCB University Press Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Uses longitudinal data from the NLSY79 to examine the effect of a broad variety of performance-based pay schemes and fringe benefits on male and female wages between 1988 and 1998. Specifically, analyzes whether the offer of various performance-based pay schemes and fringe benefits functions as an alternative work incentive, eliciting greater effort and raising wages or, instead, it is accompanied by lower wages, as predicted by compensating wage theory. The results indicate that, while most performance-based pay schemes are associated with higher wages to differing extents across gender, tips are commonly accompanied by lower wages among men. Similarly, while the offer of a retirement plan appears to as a work incentive raising male and female wages, workers are willing to trade wages for jobs offering life and medical insurance. See also: http://caliban.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5251616/cl=58/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini=emerald&reqidx=/cw/mcb/01437720/v24n6/s3/p673 AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA POZO, SUSAN Do Immigrants Differ from Natives in Their Wealth Accumulation Patterns? Evidence from the NLSY79 Working Paper No. 00-03. Department of Economics, San Diego State University, March 2000 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4833 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study finds that both the wealth accumulation and savings of immigrants are lower than their native born counterparts. [This study does] not indicate the time at which immigrants begin saving, the conclusion that foreign born individuals save less than native born individuals may indicate that the point at which saving begins is later for those who immigrate into this country. AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA POZO, SUSAN Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives Southern Economic Journal 69,1 (July 2002): 48-72. Also: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7344020&db=buh Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4054 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Explores the wealth accumulation patterns of younger cohorts as well as immigrants' and natives' precautionary saving in response to income uncertainty using the 1979 Young Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys. Time-varying, conditional measure of income uncertainty; Buffer-stock model of savings. KIMMEL, JEAN AMUEDO-DORANTES, CATALINA Effects of Family Leave on Wages, Employment, and the Family Wage Gap: Distributional Implications Journal of Law and Policy 15 (2004): 115-142. Also: http://law.wustl.edu/Journal/15/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 4885 Publisher: Washington University - St. Louis, School of Law Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. SUMMARY:... During this time period, overall female labor force participation increased from 33.9% in 1950 to 60.1% in 2001; while during the same time, male labor force participation actually fell from 86.4% to 74.4%. ... Despite the proliferation of research and publications in recent years on the topic of the FMLA, little has been published to date presenting a broad overview of the economic impact of mandated family leave, particularly regarding its distributional effects for women and their children. ... It is interesting to note that the enactment of a family and medical leave law in the state appears to have a negative impact on female employment. ... Looking at the coefficient for the motherhood dummy variable in model (1) in Table 5, we can see that, on average, mothers in our sample experienced a motherhood wage gap of approximately eleven percent. ... We use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth n11 to estimate the impact of state leave policies on employment and wage outcomes for women, both mothers and non-mothers, thereby producing estimates of such leave policies on the family earnings gap. Finally, we discuss distributional implications of the current FMLA policy and suggest policy revisions. Copyright (c) 2004 Washington University Search returned 10 items. Search Start: 17:51:04 Search Finish: 17:51:04
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