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Author: Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Resulting in 6 citations.
1. Blau, Francine D.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Wages, Women; Women's Studies

Table of Contents:
http://www.russellsage.org/publications/titles/pdf_files/gendertoc.pdf.

Introduction -- Career and family : college women look to the past -- Labor supply effects of state maternity leave legislation -- Working mothers then and now : a cross-cohort analysis of the effects of maternity leave on women's pay -- Parental leave policies in Europe and North America -- Work norms and professional labor markets -- Early career supervisor gender and the labor market outcomes of young workers -- Three perspectives on policy.

Papers presented at a conference held in April 1995 at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index.
2000 edition: 1st paperback ed.

Bibliography Citation
Blau, Francine D. and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.
2. Butler, Richard J.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Data from the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies: Its Potential Use in Analyzing the Educational and Labor Force Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth
Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Assets; Employment; Family Background and Culture; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Longitudinal Surveys; Research Methodology

The report summarizes the potential usefulness of a rather unique data base collected by the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) based at Cornell University in analyzing labor market outcomes of young people. This data base compares favorably to the National Longitudinal Surveys data in terms of breadth of information on current labor market status, family background, and health and attitudinal (both with respect to school and work) measures. It lacks, however, detailed information on family assets, labor market histories, and crucially, on participation in government-sponsored programs after the onset of formal schooling. Its singular contribution results from its being a longitudinal study of disadvantaged youth, many of whom were enrolled in pre-school intervention programs that began before their formal schooling performance was recorded. Unfortunately, the independent beginnings of the CLS data bases' component projects lead to what is undoubtedly its chief defect--the lack of a cohesive sampling design.
Bibliography Citation
Butler, Richard J. and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. "Data from the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies: Its Potential Use in Analyzing the Educational and Labor Force Outcomes of Disadvantaged Youth." Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980.
3. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Marcus, Alan J.
Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth
Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 61-93
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: JAI Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Employment; High School; Minimum Wage; Schooling; Teenagers

This analysis of the statewide data on white male and female teenagers from the l970 Census of Population and the l966 NLS data for nonwhite male teenagers yields conflicting evidence. The former suggest that the effect of minimum wage changes on teenagers' educational decisions is small, and that the major effect of the changes is to redistribute jobs from the children of the poor to the children of the nonpoor. The latter suggest that such changes induce a shift from full-time schooling to full-time employment for nonwhite male teens from low-income families. While coherent explanations can be provided for each of these results, confidence in them would have been increased if the various data bases had yielded similar findings.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Alan J. Marcus. "Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth." Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 61-93.
4. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Marcus, Alan J.
Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model
Journal of Human Resources 17,1 (Winter 1982): 39-58.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145523
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Resources; Minimum Wage; Schooling; Teenagers

This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of minimum wage legislation on teenagers' education decisions is asymmetrical across family income classes, with the legislation inducing children from low-income families to reduce their levels of schooling and children from higher- income families to increase their educational attainment. The authors use data from the NLS of Young Men and Young Women, and exploit the fact that, although the minimum wage is fixed at a point in time, its value relative to adult wages varies across areas. Multinomial logit models of teenagers' enrollment-employment outcomes are estimated. The hypothesis appears to be confirmed for white teens; however, the evidence for nonwhites is more ambiguous.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Alan J. Marcus. "Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model." Journal of Human Resources 17,1 (Winter 1982): 39-58.
5. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Impacts of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and the Post-Unemployment Wage
Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting (1976): 234-241
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Industrial Relations Research Association ==> LERA
Keyword(s): Job Search; Unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; Wages

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

This study confirms that unemployment insurance (UI) benefits lead to longer spells of unemployment. While UI benefits also raise post-unemployment wages, these wage effects are statistically significant only in the cases of older males and females. Thus, the predictions of the search model are verified for these older groups of workers, but not for the younger cohorts. At the margin, the percentage wage gain for each additional week of unemployment is larger among older workers and among males.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Impacts of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and the Post-Unemployment Wage." Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting (1976): 234-241.
6. Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain
American Economic Review 66,5 (December 1976): 754-766.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1827489
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Job Search; Unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; Wage Growth

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

The estimated impact of unemployment insurance benefit changes on unemployed individual's duration of unemployment, postunemployment wages, and durations of spell out of the labor force is calculated. Three estimates are presented for each group: (1) the impact of the current benefit level relative to the absence of benefits; (2) the impact of increasing the replacement fraction from 0.4 to 0.5; and (3) the impact of increasing the replacement fraction from 0.0 to 1.0. The results seem to indicate that an increase in UI benefits would induce additional productive job search for older males and females, with the magnitudes of the impact on both postunemployment wages and duration of unemployment being larger for the males. In contrast, an increase in UI benefits appears to increase the duration of unemployment for the younger males and females but has no impact on their postunemployment wages.
Bibliography Citation
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Ronald L. Oaxaca. "Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain." American Economic Review 66,5 (December 1976): 754-766.