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Source: European Association of Labour Economists (EALE)
Resulting in 4 citations.
1. Buddlemeyer, Hielke
Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labour Economists, September 2004.
Also: http://gatton.uky.edu/faculty/troske/working_pap/troskevoicu081704.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists
Keyword(s): Bayesian; Fertility; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Labor Supply; Markov chain / Markov model; Modeling; Women

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Three mechanisms generate the statistical relationship between women's fertility decisions and their level of labor market involvement. Children directly affect women's labor supply by raising the value of non-market options. Having children frequently forces women to temporarily leave the labor market leading to depreciation of their human capital, thus indirectly affecting subsequent labor market decisions. Individual heterogeneity with respect to tastes for market work and family structure induce additional correlation between fertility and participation behavior throughout lifetime. Distinguishing these three effects is important for effective policy design. This paper proposes a model that disentangles the direct, indirect, and unobserved heterogeneity effects, and evaluates their relative importance. Sequential participation decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. The estimation is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Bibliography Citation
Buddlemeyer, Hielke, Kenneth R. Troske and Alexandru Voicu. "Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques." Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labour Economists, September 2004.
2. Leping, Kristjan-Olari
Racial Differences in Availability of Fringe Benefits as an Explanation for the Unexplained Black-White Wage Gap for Males in US
Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008.
Also: http://www.eale.nl/Conference2008/Programme/PapersA/add70811_mnCft94sHH.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists
Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Racial Differences; Wage Gap; Wages

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The US black-white wage gap is an issue that has attracted thorough investigation, but so far the corresponding gap for fringe benefits has not received sufficient attention. Although ethnic differences in fringe benefits could affect wage differences, previous analysis of ethnic wage gaps in the vast majority of cases has not taken fringe benefits into account. In order to fill that gap in the existing literature, this article estimates the black-white gap for both wages and fringe benefits on the basis of US data. Data from the 2004 section of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 has been used in this analysis. Our results indicate that when controlling for various individual and job characteristics, there remains a wage gap in favour of whites, and for several fringe benefits, there is an unexplained gap in favour of blacks. This result means that the ethnic wage gap overestimates the ethnic compensation gap. We also argue that fringe benefits are used to compensate blacks for their lower wages.
Bibliography Citation
Leping, Kristjan-Olari. "Racial Differences in Availability of Fringe Benefits as an Explanation for the Unexplained Black-White Wage Gap for Males in US." Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008.
3. Lundberg, Shelly
Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics
Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, September 2004.
Also: http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/Lundberg/Men_LE.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists
Keyword(s): Family Studies; Fatherhood; Marriage

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I would like to suggest that family arrangements in the developed world have become, over the past few decades, so complex, so varied, and so transitory that the key work-family problem facing labor economists is the simultaneity of individual decisions in these two domains. The presence of a partner, wife, or child in a man's household influence his work effort and his earnings, but are also influenced by his past labor market decisions, current constraints, and his expectations about future opportunities. With widespread increases in divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing, men are far more likely to be marginal decision-makers with respect to family status domains such as marriage and custodial parenthood, and these decisions are closely connected to a man's strategies as an individual worker and investor. Demographic changes have practical implications both for the returns to marriage and costs of children literature, and for labor economists who use family status measures as controls for unobserved productivity. No single econometric technique or set of techniques can "solve" the family-work simultaneity problem, but a recognition that the world has changed in a way that makes a clear separation between family economics and labor economics impossible can improve our modeling of, and understanding of, work and income.
Bibliography Citation
Lundberg, Shelly. "Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics." Presented: Lisbon, Portugal, European Association of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, September 2004.
4. Usui, Emiko
Okumura, Tsunao
Intergenerational Correlations of Skills
Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008.
Also: http://www.eale.nl/Conference2008/Programme/Bookofabstracts.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT); Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Gender Differences; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Labor Market Outcomes; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parenting Skills/Styles; Shyness; Social Capital; Temperament

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A number of studies have found that social skills (e.g., communication, interpersonal interactions, and leadership skills) are important determinants of labor market outcomes, including occupation and wages. This paper examines whether social skills are linked across generations; and whether a child's occupational choice is determined by his/her parent's abilities and personality traits. There are few studies on the intergenerational transmission of adult social skills due to a lack of data on parents' social skills. To resolve this problem, we use occupational characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) to proxy for the parents' skills. Also utilized is the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). A model of intergenerational skill following is presented. Subsequently, by constructing the appropriate measure of social skills, we find that social skills (also technical skills) link across generations. The correlation coefficient is computed, which measures the closeness of the direction of the multidimensional parent-child skill vectors. Skill correlation is found along the gender line. White sons earn a wage premium for working in occupations that require similar skills to their fathers; whereas, black sons incur a wage penalty. This implies a transfer of occupationally-related human capital for whites, but not for blacks. Evidence for nepotism is found, when sons earn a wage premium for working in the same occupation as their fathers.
Bibliography Citation
Usui, Emiko and Tsunao Okumura. "Intergenerational Correlations of Skills." Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008.