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Author: King, Randall H.
Resulting in 9 citations.
1. Byrne, Dennis M.
Myers, Steven C.
King, Randall H.
Short Term Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy
Applied Economics 23,12 (December 1991): 1819-1827.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036849100000171
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Keyword(s): Abortion; Educational Attainment; Labor Supply; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Teenagers; Wages

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

To determine the impact that teenage pregnancy followed by a birth or an abortion has on labor market success, the relationship between teenage pregnancy and education and the effect of pregnancy on wages are examined. The data are from the NLSY, using 1984 and 1985 survey interview data. The results indicate that a live birth has a negative impact on years of education completed, wages, and labor supply. Young women who undergo abortions complete less schooling, on average, than a similarly aged never-pregnant group, leading to lower wages and less attachment to the labor market. While the greatest educational penalty - 1.8 years - is borne by a teenager who has a baby, the 0.53 year penalty faced by the teenager who aborts is also substantial. These women carry a career penalty into their early 20s in the form of lower education, lower wages, and higher wage elasticities. [ABI/INFORM]
Bibliography Citation
Byrne, Dennis M., Steven C. Myers and Randall H. King. "Short Term Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy." Applied Economics 23,12 (December 1991): 1819-1827.
2. King, Randall H.
Labor Market Consequences of Dropping Out of High School
Ph.D. Dissertation, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Dropouts; Earnings; High School; High School Dropouts; Occupational Status; Schooling; Unemployment

This study, based on human capital theory, examines the economic consequences of dropping out of high school. The effect of schooling over time on labor market success (hourly pay rate, occupational prestige, and employment incidence and duration) was measured. Data from Young Men and Women cohorts of the NLS were utilized. The study universe consisted of respondents who left school between l958-70 (males) and l962-70 (females), completed 9-12 years of schooling, and were not enrolled at the time of the survey. A three-equation recursive model was used to determine schooling contribution to success measures. Findings demonstrated substantial labor market benefits for all groups during the first decade of labor market experience. Earnings differences between graduates and dropouts were not pronounced immediately upon leaving school, but became significant over time. Graduates' age-earnings profiles were steeper than those of dropouts. The difference in occupational status between black graduates and dropouts shrinks over time. All graduates except black females enjoyed greater immunity to unemployment than dropouts. In employment duration the advantage of black males and black and white females deteriorated over time; little difference was demonstrated between white male graduates and dropouts.
Bibliography Citation
King, Randall H. Labor Market Consequences of Dropping Out of High School. Ph.D. Dissertation, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978.
3. King, Randall H.
Some Further Evidence on the Rate of Return to Schooling and the Business Cycle
Journal of Human Resources 15,2 (Spring 1980): 264-271.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145335
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Dropouts; Educational Returns; Unemployment

It is clear from the results of this analysis and the Kniesner, Padilla, Polachek study that the business cycle has a strong impact on calculated rates of return to schooling. Specifically, cross-sectional rates of return are strongly related (positively) to the unemployment rate in the year the cross-section is taken. However, contrary to the KPP findings, the sensitivity of the relationship was not found to be substantially different between the races.
Bibliography Citation
King, Randall H. "Some Further Evidence on the Rate of Return to Schooling and the Business Cycle." Journal of Human Resources 15,2 (Spring 1980): 264-271.
4. King, Randall H.
The Labor Market Consequences of Dropping out of High School
Working Paper, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research
Keyword(s): Dropouts; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Dropouts; Job Tenure; Labor Force Participation; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wages

This study has used a multivariate analysis to ascertain the extent to which graduation from high school confers labor market benefits on youth in terms of their earnings, occupational status, and unemployment experience.
Bibliography Citation
King, Randall H. "The Labor Market Consequences of Dropping out of High School." Working Paper, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1978.
5. King, Randall H.
Myers, Steven C.
Byrne, Dennis M.
The Demand for Abortion by Unmarried Teenagers: Economic Factors, Age, Ethnicity and Religiosity Matter
American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51,2 (April 1992): 223-235.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1992.tb03349.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Family Income; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Religion; School Completion; Unemployment; Wages

A demand model was developed and applied to a nationally representative sample of unmarried, pregnant teenagers drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys in order to identify the economic determinants of abortion. Measures of the opportunity costs of pregnancy were found to play a major role in the individual's decision to give birth or to abort. Economic variables in the analysis included predicted wages, local area unemployment rates, other family income, poverty status, and school enrollment status. Other factors found to be significant were age, ethnicity, and religiosity. In general, young women in favorable economic circumstances were substantially more likely than others to abort a pregnancy. (ABI/Inform)
Bibliography Citation
King, Randall H., Steven C. Myers and Dennis M. Byrne. "The Demand for Abortion by Unmarried Teenagers: Economic Factors, Age, Ethnicity and Religiosity Matter." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51,2 (April 1992): 223-235.
6. Myers, Steven C.
Byrne, Dennis M.
King, Randall H.
Stratton, Richard W.
Employment Outcomes of Hispanic Youth: An Analysis of Labor Market Behavior
Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, 1982
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Employment; Hispanic Youth; Hispanics; Language Problems; Schooling; Teenagers; Vocational Training; Work History

This volume is the result of an extensive investigation of the labor market position of Hispanic youth across both employment and non-work dimensions. An oversampling of Hispanics in the l979 NLSY provided a fresh new body of data for the study. Answers to the following three broad research questions were sought: How are Hispanic youth faring in the labor market? How do they compare to their non-Hispanic counterparts? How may their position in the labor market be improved? Part one addresses issues of enrollment and educational choice, hours of work, earnings, and occupational attainment. Part two resolves some serious methodological issues regarding the proper manner of analysis of the non-employment experiences of youth, estimates probabilities of moving from work to non- work (and vice versa), the duration of spells of nonwork, and estimates the subsequent wage gain.
Bibliography Citation
Myers, Steven C., Dennis M. Byrne, Randall H. King and Richard W. Stratton. "Employment Outcomes of Hispanic Youth: An Analysis of Labor Market Behavior." Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, 1982.
7. Parnes, Herbert S.
Gagen, Mary G.
King, Randall H.
Job Loss Among Long-Service Workers
In: Work and Retirement: A Longitudinal Study of Men. H.S. Parnes, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Job Patterns; Job Turnover; Layoffs; Unemployment; Wages

This article investigates that part of the group of Older Men 45-59 in 1966 who had lost their jobs involuntarily, and using data from the 1976 survey examines the impact of this loss on their later work lives and attitudes. Unmarried men seem more likely to be displaced than married men, and private sector employees seem much more likely to be than those in the public sector. Seniority and average hourly earnings appear to play little part in determining displacement, although establishments with no pension plan seem much more likely to displace workers. Although 40% of displaced workers were apparently immediately able to move into new jobs, and the percentage of workers unemployed in 1976 who had been displaced in 1969 or before was the same as the unemployment percentage of workers never displaced, the average hourly earnings for displaced workers was 22% less the average figure for those never displaced, and, so far, there is no evidence that this or its psychological effects soften with time.
Bibliography Citation
Parnes, Herbert S., Mary G. Gagen and Randall H. King. "Job Loss Among Long-Service Workers" In: Work and Retirement: A Longitudinal Study of Men. H.S. Parnes, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981
8. Parnes, Herbert S.
King, Randall H.
Middle-Aged Job Losers
Industrial Gerontology 4 (Spring 1977): 77-95.
Also: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED143864.pdf
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: National Council on the Aging
Keyword(s): Earnings; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Tenure; Layoffs; Occupational Status; Work Attitudes

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The characteristics and consequences of a permanent involuntary separation among middle-aged workers with at least five years of attachment to their employer is the focus of this analysis. Displaced workers tended to be older, to be at work in private sector nonunionized jobs in the trades and manufacturing sectors, and were likely to be married as compared to nondisplaced men. Those who were subsequently employed were more likely than their control counterparts to be in lower status jobs, with less growth in hourly and annual earnings, and also more likely to experience declining health and a sense of alienation.
Bibliography Citation
Parnes, Herbert S. and Randall H. King. "Middle-Aged Job Losers." Industrial Gerontology 4 (Spring 1977): 77-95.
9. Renna, Francesco
King, Randall H.
The Impact of Racial Discrimination on the Early Career Outcomes of Young Men
Atlantic Economic Journal 35,3 (September 2007): 269-278.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0p171767pw146028/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Economics of Discrimination; Economics of Minorities; Fertility; Labor Market Outcomes; Racial Differences; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wages, Young Men

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The NLSY dataset is utilized to measure the extent of employer wage discrimination between white and black males during their first 5 years of post-school employment. We look at the respondent's first job and the jobs 1 and 5 years after school completion. Oaxaca wage decompositions are employed to gauge the effect of discrimination. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the discrimination component of the wage gap falls over time. For the first job out of school the unexplained wage gap between blacks and whites is 35%. By year 5, the unexplained component falls to about 13%. Thus, while discrimination continues to play a role in explaining the white-black wage gap over time, its impact decreases as time in the labor market increases.
Bibliography Citation
Renna, Francesco and Randall H. King. "The Impact of Racial Discrimination on the Early Career Outcomes of Young Men." Atlantic Economic Journal 35,3 (September 2007): 269-278.