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1.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Bansak, Cynthia
1.	The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, CReAM Discussion Paper Series, number 1106. 2010 & 2011 versions: IZA Discussion Papers 5576, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) Keyword(s): Amnesty / Legalized Population; Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA); Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Demographics; Labor Market Outcomes; Legalized Population Survey (LPS) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1987-1992, a quasi-experimental framework is developed to assess the differential impact of amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents. For women, employment also fell and transitions out of the workforce increased among the newly legalized population. Increasing returns to skill, as captured by English proficiency, only played an important role in explaining the employment of newly legalized women. Finally, newly legalized men and women enjoyed higher wage growth rates than their working native counterparts, perhaps owing to their comparatively growing returns to U.S. educational attainment over this period.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Cynthia Bansak. "The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey." Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, CReAM Discussion Paper Series, number 1106. 2010 & 2011 versions: IZA Discussion Papers 5576, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)..

2.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Bansak, Cynthia
2.	The 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 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Job Characteristics; Labor Force Participation; Modeling, Probit; Poverty; Wages, Women; Welfare; Work Histories 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Cynthia Bansak. "The Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Poverty." Working Paper No. 03-01, Department of Economics, San Diego State University, January 2003.

3.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Kimmel, Jean
3.	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 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Earnings; Fertility; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages, Women 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Jean Kimmel. "Do College Educated Women Reduce Their Motherhood Wage Penalty by Delaying Childbearing?" Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2003.

4.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Kimmel, Jean
4.	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 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Economic Changes/Recession; Economics, Demographic; Gender Differences; Sample Selection 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Jean Kimmel. "Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle." IZA Discussion Paper No. 1671, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn, Germany, 2005.

5.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Kimmel, Jean
5.	Moonlighting Over the Business Cycle. Economic Inquiry 47,4 (October 2009): 754-765. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00140.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Economic Changes/Recession; Economics of Gender; Gender; Gender Differences; Work, Atypical Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality of moonlighting by gender. We estimate a random-effects Tobit model of moonlighting among working men and women and find that while male moonlighting behavior does not fluctuate significantly with the business cycle, female moonlighting does. The cyclicality of female moonlighting has, nonetheless, varied over the course of the past 35 yr. Female moonlighting seemed to behave countercyclically during much of the 1980s and early 1990s, confirming the popular media belief that moonlighting is more likely to occur during periods of economic distress. Yet, this countercyclical behavior disappears during the 1993-1999 period to become procyclical by the early twentieth century. The recent procyclicality of female moonlighting supports the idea that female workers respond to a need for "just-in-time" employment following the economic upturn of the mid- to late 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Jean Kimmel. "Moonlighting Over the Business Cycle." Economic Inquiry 47,4 (October 2009): 754-765.

6.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Kimmel, Jean
6.	The 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. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u371kgl72303k370/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Childbearing; College Graduates; Fertility; First Birth; Heterogeneity; Mothers, Income; Wage Gap 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 advancement.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Jean Kimmel. "The 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.

7.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Mach, Traci Lynn
7.	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. Also: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~econ/f_papers.htm#98 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Keyword(s): Performance pay; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Traci Lynn Mach. "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.

8.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Mach, Traci Lynn
8.	Performance Pay and Fringe Benefits: Work Incentives or Compensating Wage Differentials? International Journal of Manpower 24,6 (2003): 673-698. Also: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0143-7720&volume=24&issue=6&articleid=848396&show=abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: MCB University Press Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Insurance, Health; Performance pay; Wages; Wages, Men; Wages, Women 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Traci Lynn Mach. "Performance Pay and Fringe Benefits: Work Incentives or Compensating Wage Differentials?" International Journal of Manpower 24,6 (2003): 673-698.

9.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Mach, Traci Lynn
9.	The Impact of Families on Juvenile Substance Use Journal of Bioeconomics 4,3 (January 2002): 269-282. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/l8977656052l8643/fulltext.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Drug Use; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Involvement; Gender Differences; Siblings; Substance Use 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Traci Lynn Mach. "The Impact of Families on Juvenile Substance Use." Journal of Bioeconomics 4,3 (January 2002): 269-282.

10.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Pozo, Susan
10.	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 Publisher: Department of Economics, San Diego State University Keyword(s): Immigrants; Savings; Wealth 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Susan Pozo. "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.

11.	Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina Pozo, Susan
11.	Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives Southern Economic Journal 69,1 (July 2002): 48-72. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1061556 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Immigrants; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Modeling; Savings; Wealth 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.
	Bibliography Citation Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Susan Pozo. "Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives." Southern Economic Journal 69,1 (July 2002): 48-72.

12.	Kimmel, Jean Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
12.	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 Publisher: Washington University - St. Louis, School of Law Keyword(s): Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); Labor Force Participation; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Motherhood; Wage Gap; Women 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
	Bibliography Citation Kimmel, Jean and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. "Effects of Family Leave on Wages, Employment, and the Family Wage Gap: Distributional Implications." Journal of Law and Policy 15 (2004): 115-142.

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