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Author: Mukerjee, Swati
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1. Meyer, Christine Siegwarth
Mukerjee, Swati
Black Teen Childbearing: Reexamining the Segmented Labor Market Hypothesis
Review of Black Political Economy 27,4 (Spring 2000): 27-42.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k0cuv1efb22eynnw/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Economic Association
Keyword(s): Black Family; Childbearing, Adolescent; Labor Market Segmentation; Mothers, Race; Racial Differences; Teenagers

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Examines relationship between racial difference in proportion of women who become teenage mothers and differences in labor options and choices; data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY); US.
Bibliography Citation
Meyer, Christine Siegwarth and Swati Mukerjee. "Black Teen Childbearing: Reexamining the Segmented Labor Market Hypothesis." Review of Black Political Economy 27,4 (Spring 2000): 27-42.
2. Meyer, Christine Siegwarth
Mukerjee, Swati
Investigating Dual Labor Market Theory for Women
Eastern Economic Journal 33,3 (Summer 2007): 301-316.
Also: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v33/n3/abs/eej200727a.html
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Human Capital Theory; Labor Market, Secondary; Skills; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Theory; Women

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Using a switching model with unknown regimes, this paper demonstrates that the women's labor market is significantly better described by two wage setting mechanisms than by one. Though the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that women may be rationed into the sector with low wages, the sectors do not entirely conform to traditional notions of dual labor markets and to results from the men's labor market. Both sectors have different patterns of rewards to human capital formation which explains the different patterns of labor force attachment in the two sectors,
Bibliography Citation
Meyer, Christine Siegwarth and Swati Mukerjee. "Investigating Dual Labor Market Theory for Women." Eastern Economic Journal 33,3 (Summer 2007): 301-316.
3. Mukerjee, Swati
Childhood Bullying and Labor Market Outcomes in The United States
Atlantic Economic Journal 46,3 (September 2018): 313-335.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-018-9587-5
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society
Keyword(s): Bullying/Victimization; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Earnings; Gender Differences; Labor Market Outcomes

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This paper contributes to a nascent economic literature on bullying. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, I explored the relationship between childhood bullying and later earnings. Since males and females are usually subject to different kinds of bullying and coping strategies vary with age, I distinguished between pre-teen and teenage bullying by gender. After delineating the pathways by which being bullied could potentially lead to lower earnings, the analysis first considered the probability of being bullied either as a teenager or before the age of 12. Next, after a simple ordinary least squares analysis of a human capital earnings function, a detailed propensity score analysis with multiple matching schemes was undertaken separately for males and females, further subdivided by when bullying had occurred. Results indicated males bullied as teenagers had earnings 23% lower than their non-bullied counterparts. Females did not suffer this penalty, nor did children who were bullied only below the age of 12. However, being bullied in childhood increased significantly the probability of being bullied later. In terms of human capital formation and possible impact on later productivity, teen bullying may be affecting men the most. Current findings may also be useful in encouraging a targeted focus on those who may be in greater danger of being bullied. Children who have changed schools several times, males with a learning disability, or a vision, speech or hearing problem, and females with some kind of deformity would be targeted significantly more.
Bibliography Citation
Mukerjee, Swati. "Childhood Bullying and Labor Market Outcomes in The United States." Atlantic Economic Journal 46,3 (September 2018): 313-335.
4. Mukerjee, Swati
Job Satisfaction in the United States: Are Blacks Still More Satisfied?
Review of Black Political Economy 41,1 (March 2014): 61-81.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12114-013-9174-6
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Discrimination; General Social Survey (GSS); Job Satisfaction; Racial Differences; Racial Equality/Inequality

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Despite the substantial literature on the paradox of the happy female worker, research has been sparse in investigating race differences in job satisfaction. The last national level study on racial differences in job satisfaction was done in 1981 when, using national level U.S. data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Mature Men for 1966, 1969 and 1971, Bartel showed that blacks had significantly more job satisfaction and further, that this racial gap had widened during this time. Though the reasons for this gap and its widening were not investigated, it was suggested, in a close parallel to the reason for the contented female worker, that lower expectations, in this case due to discrimination in the labor market, could be a reasonable explanation. Surprisingly, since then, there have been only a handful of studies focused on smaller, specific groups. This paper exploits two U.S. national level data sets, the GSS and the NLSY 1997, to examine the racial gap in job satisfaction. Simple means show that blacks are much less satisfied than whites and moreover, this difference has persisted not only across genders but also across almost four decades. To isolate the pure race effect, a sequential process is adopted by first examining the simple difference in the means of job satisfaction, then, through probit estimation, seeing the impact of individual attributes, finally progressing to incorporation of job attributes. Probit estimates give robust results. Blacks are significantly less satisfied than whites even when income, benefits and occupations are controlled. However, this racial gap is greater in the case of women and younger black men. An exploratory analysis shows that when discrimination is accounted for, the satisfaction gap is further reduced and the race coefficients are rendered insignificant. Estimates with comparison income show that the satisfaction gap is driven by perceived discrimination and not necessarily discrimination as captured by compariso n income. This highlights the importance of policy measures to reduce perceptual discrimination.
Bibliography Citation
Mukerjee, Swati. "Job Satisfaction in the United States: Are Blacks Still More Satisfied?" Review of Black Political Economy 41,1 (March 2014): 61-81.