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Essays on labor economics.

Arceo Gomez, Eva Olimpia.

Essays on labor economics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on labor economics.
Author:	Arceo Gomez, Eva Olimpia.
Description:	121 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: .
Notes:	Adviser: David Card.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-10A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3382827
ISBN:	9781109448252

Essays on labor economics.
Arceo Gomez, Eva Olimpia.

Essays on labor economics. - 121 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

This dissertation explores two important questions in labor economics. First, we explore whether there are social interaction effects on immigrants' economic decisions. Recently economists have recognized that immigrants make extensive use of their immigrant networks. A way in which immigrants utilize their networks is to find job information. In this dissertation explore whether the use of immigrant networks in the job search process has effects on their labor market performance and their location decisions. Chapter 2 develops an on-the-job search model in which immigrants may look for a job using formal methods and their networks. Our model predicts that an immigrant searching through a large network may hurt her labor market outcomes. The model also predicts that an increase in the network size could lead to clustering into network jobs.

ISBN: 9781109448252Subjects--Topical Terms:

212660
Economics, Labor.

Essays on labor economics.
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520 $a This dissertation explores two important questions in labor economics. First, we explore whether there are social interaction effects on immigrants' economic decisions. Recently economists have recognized that immigrants make extensive use of their immigrant networks. A way in which immigrants utilize their networks is to find job information. In this dissertation explore whether the use of immigrant networks in the job search process has effects on their labor market performance and their location decisions. Chapter 2 develops an on-the-job search model in which immigrants may look for a job using formal methods and their networks. Our model predicts that an immigrant searching through a large network may hurt her labor market outcomes. The model also predicts that an increase in the network size could lead to clustering into network jobs.
520 $a In Chapter 3 we analyze whether the labor market performance of the network is an important determinant of immigrants' location choices. We developed a job-search-based discrete choice model of the immigrants' location choices. Our assumption is that high-skilled immigrants search for jobs through formal channels, and low-skilled immigrants rely on their networks. Then we estimate an aggregate model of the determinants of location choices of recent immigrants by skill level. We find that high-skilled immigrants only respond to local labor market information, whereas low-skilled immigrants are also influenced by the realized labor market outcomes of their network.
520 $a Finally, Chapter 4 explores how female labor supply has changed in Mexico between 1990 and 2000. In the last couple of decades, the Mexican government has implemented various social programs targeted specifically to women. The impact that those programs may have on the work behavior of women depends on the form that the female labor supply takes. Using data from the 1990 and 2000 Mexican Census of Population, we estimate a structural model of labor supply. We find that the female labor supply elasticities decreased during the period. Even though female are now less responsive to changes in wages, the elasticities that we find are still large enough so that social programs aimed at modifying females' work behavior through incentives might still be very successful.
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