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Author: Florence, Curtis Samuel, II
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Florence, Curtis Samuel, II |
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Three Essays on Job Search Methods and Search Outcomes Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Job Search; Job Status; Job Tenure; Unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; Wage Growth; Wages This dissertation is comprised of three essays that examine the relationship between job search methods and job outcomes for unemployed workers. All three essays utilize data from a sample of unemployed young men in the 1986 panel of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The first essay examines job search choices and outcomes over time. Forty-nine percent of searchers who are unemployed for more than one month change the job search methods they use during an unemployment spell. Estimates of the arrival rate of job offers suggest that searchers choose methods systematically by starting with the most productive methods and then adding less productive methods. However, searchers who use public employment agencies after trying other methods first have shorter jobless duration than other searchers. This suggests that public employment agencies may be a productive method for searchers if they are not initially successful in finding a job with other methods. In the second essay I estima te two models of job search outcomes that control for the endogeneity of search choices. The first model jointly estimates equations for search method use and the arrival of job offers. The second model jointly estimates equations for search method use, the receipt of unemployment insurance, and the hazard rate for exit from unemployment. The results show that private employment agencies, personal contacts, newspaper advertisements and direct applications increase the number of job offers. However, personal contacts and direct application are the only methods that decrease jobless duration. Receiving unemployment insurance increases jobless duration by almost three months. In the third essay, I estimate the effect of job search choices on subsequent job quality. The results reveal several interesting relationships between search methods and job quality. Using public employment agencies has a negative effect on the starting wage and wage growth, but a small positive effect on the duration of the job. Using personal contacts has a negative effect on starting wages and a small positive effect on wage growth and job duration. Direct application increases job duration by over one and a half months. Receiving unemployment insurance increases starting wages by about nine percent. |
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Bibliography Citation
Florence, Curtis Samuel, II. Three Essays on Job Search Methods and Search Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1997. |
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Thorpe, Kenneth E. Florence, Curtis Samuel, II |
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Health Insurance Among Children: The Role of Expanded Medicaid Coverage Inquiry-The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing 35,4 (Winter 1998/1999): 369-379 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization Keyword(s): Benefits, Insurance; Children, Health Care; Family Studies; Health Care; Medicaid/Medicare; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to track the health coverage of parents in the year before and the year in which their children enroll in Medicaid. Use of such longitudinal data, compared to cross-sectional data, provides more insight into the dynamics of health insurance coverage and expansions in Medicaid. Using these data, we find that approximately 16% of newly enrolled Medicaid children likely had access to private insurance through a parent. Moreover, most of the children enrolling in Medicaid were previously uninsured. We find little substitution of private for public health insurance among families living at or near the federal poverty line. Copyright ) 1998 Institute for Scientific Information |
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Bibliography Citation
Thorpe, Kenneth E. and Curtis Samuel Florence. "Health Insurance Among Children: The Role of Expanded Medicaid Coverage." Inquiry-The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing 35,4 (Winter 1998/1999): 369-379.
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