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1. Artz, Benjamin
The Role of Firm Size and Performance Pay in Determining Employee Job Satisfaction Brief: Firm Size, Performance Pay, and Job Satisfaction
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,2 (June 2008): 315–343.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00398.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Endogeneity; Job Satisfaction; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Performance pay; Unions; Wage Determination

Job satisfaction reflects the on-the-job utility of workers and has been found to influence both the behavior of workers and the productivity of firms. Performance pay remains popular and widely used to increase worker productivity and more generally align the objectives of workers and firms. Yet, its impact on job satisfaction is ambiguous. Whereas the increased earnings increase job satisfaction, the increased effort and risk decreases job satisfaction. This paper finds empirical evidence that on net performance pay increases job satisfaction but does so largely among union workers and males in larger firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Artz, Benjamin. "The Role of Firm Size and Performance Pay in Determining Employee Job Satisfaction Brief: Firm Size, Performance Pay, and Job Satisfaction." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,2 (June 2008): 315–343. A.
2. Brown, Christian
Maternal Incarceration and Children's Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 31,1 (March 2017): 43-58.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/labr.12086/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Dropouts; Educational Attainment; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Labor Market Outcomes; Mothers, Incarceration; Parental Influences

I estimate the effect of maternal incarceration on education and labor market outcomes. I link mother-child panels and estimate maternal fixed effects to control for unobservable household heterogeneity. Maternal incarceration from birth to age 10 is associated with increased grade retention and dropout rates. Conditional on completing high school, incarceration from 15 to 17 is associated with decreased college attendance. Maternal incarceration does not appear to have a further effect on employment, but some wage penalties are apparent. Propensity score analysis suggests that controlling for unobservable household characteristics is vital when examining the link between incarceration and labor outcomes.
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Brown, Christian. "Maternal Incarceration and Children's Education and Labor Market Outcomes." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 31,1 (March 2017): 43-58.
3. Francesconi, Marco
Labour Force Transitions among Married Women in the USA
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 13,4 (December 1999): 775-796.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9914.00115/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Absenteeism; Demography; Economics of Gender; Employment, Part-Time; Family Structure; Human Capital Theory; Life Cycle Research; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Occupational Choice; Training, Occupational; Training, On-the-Job; Work Hours/Schedule

This paper describes the patterns of labour market transitions for a cohort of married women in the USA drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey and observed between 1968 and 1991. The empirical analysis of labour market movements is motivated by human capital theory augmented by demographic and life-cycle considerations. These movements are investigated by estimating competing risk models of labour force spell duration. The results show that the determinants of spell lengths and the determinants of the reasons for spell terminations vary across labour market states. More importantly, both the labour market state in which an individual is observed over her work cycle and the labour market state to which she moves are relevant in shaping her spell length and her tradable characteristics in the labour market.
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Francesconi, Marco. "Labour Force Transitions among Married Women in the USA." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 13,4 (December 1999): 775-796.
4. Girtz, Robert
The Effects of Personality Traits on Wages: A Matching Approach
Labour: Review of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations 26,4 (December 2012): 455-471.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2012.00556.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Propensity Scores; Self-Esteem; Wages

I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to estimate the effects of adolescent measurements of self-esteem and locus of control on adult wages using propensity score matching. An adolescent possessing high self-esteem will experience between 8.5 and 9.2 per cent higher wages as an adult. This result is statistically significant and robust to the addition of cognitive skill and family background characteristics. When cognitive skill and family background characteristics are controlled for, locus of control as an adolescent is insignificant in explaining adult wages. This result is contrary to findings in the literature.
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Girtz, Robert. "The Effects of Personality Traits on Wages: A Matching Approach." Labour: Review of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations 26,4 (December 2012): 455-471.
5. Gong, Tao
Do Parental Transfers Reduce Youths' Incentives to Work?
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 23,4 (December 2009): 653-676.
Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1505068
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Allowance, Pocket Money; Labor Supply; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine the effects that parental transfers from a family have on a youth's labor supply. The results from a fixed-effects two-stage least squares estimator suggest that: (i) parental pocket money reduces youths' incentives to work; (ii) parental allowances have a non-linear effect on hours worked; (iii) the subsample of siblings shows similar patterns that parental transfers have a negative impact on hours worked, although the magnitudes are slightly weaker than the full sample; and (iv) the response to parental transfers varies by age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Gong, Tao. "Do Parental Transfers Reduce Youths' Incentives to Work?" Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 23,4 (December 2009): 653-676.
6. Liu, Haiyong
A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,1 (March 2008): 23-71.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00403.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: CEIS and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Endogeneity; Labor Supply; Maternal Employment; Migration; Mothers and Daughters; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Simultaneity; Welfare

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This paper investigates how women's migration and labor supply behaviors respond to changes in welfare policies and labor market conditions, controlling for endogenous initial residence and unobserved heterogeneity. It also traces out how these responses influence educational inputs and child outcomes. The simulation results show that poor and low-educated single women with children do change their residential locations in response to changes in welfare policies and labor market conditions. The magnitude of this response in the form of migration is rather modest. More importantly, however, such policy changes often have large and important impacts on particular at-risk groups.
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Liu, Haiyong. "A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,1 (March 2008): 23-71.
7. Lyshol, Arne F.
Nenov, Plamen T.
Wevelstad, Thea
Duration Dependence and Labor Market Experience
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 35,1 (March 2021): 105-134.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/labr.12188
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Labor Force Participation; Unemployment

We study whether unemployment duration dependence--the negative effect of a current unemployment spell on an individual's employment probability--varies with labor market experience. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Current Population Survey, we show that although there is negative duration dependence for experienced workers, it is mostly absent for new entrants to the labor force. This difference suggests that structural forces in addition to ex ante heterogeneity in job‐finding probabilities and dynamic selection may drive unemployment duration dependence. Our findings are robust to the econometric model used and to a number of demographic controls and time trends, as well as individual fixed effects. We also discuss whether a number of theories of duration dependence can explain our empirical findings.
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Lyshol, Arne F., Plamen T. Nenov and Thea Wevelstad. "Duration Dependence and Labor Market Experience." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 35,1 (March 2021): 105-134.
8. Moro, Andrea
Tello-Trillo, Sebastian
Tempesti, Tommaso
The Impact of Obesity on Wages: The Role of Personal Interactions and Job Selection
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 33,2 (June 2019): 125-146.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/labr.12145
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Obesity; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Racial Differences; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty

We estimate the effects of obesity on wages accounting for the endogenous selection of workers into jobs requiring different levels of personal interactions in the workplace. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 combined with detailed information about occupation characteristics from O*Net, we confirm the results from the literature finding a wage penalty for obese White women. This penalty is higher in jobs that require a high level of personal interactions. Accounting for job selection does not significantly change the estimated wage penalty.
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Moro, Andrea, Sebastian Tello-Trillo and Tommaso Tempesti. "The Impact of Obesity on Wages: The Role of Personal Interactions and Job Selection." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 33,2 (June 2019): 125-146.
9. Neumark, David B.
The Effects of Minimum Wages on (Almost) Everything? A Review of Recent Evidence on Health and Related Behaviors
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (6 February 2024).
Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12263
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Depression (see also CESD); Diet; Exercise; Health Behaviors; Health Outcomes; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health, Physical; Minimum Wage; Obesity; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Suicide

I review and assess the evidence on minimum wage effects on health outcomes and health-related behaviors. The evidence on physical health points in conflicting directions, leaning toward adverse effects. Research on effects of diet and obesity sometimes points to beneficial effects, whereas other evidence indicates that higher minimum wages increase smoking and drinking and reduce exercise (and possibly hygiene). In contrast, there is evidence that higher minimum wages reduce suicides, partly consistent with the evidence of positive or mixed effects on other measures of mental health/depression. Overall, policy conclusions that minimum wages improve health are unwarranted or at least premature.
Bibliography Citation
Neumark, David B. "The Effects of Minimum Wages on (Almost) Everything? A Review of Recent Evidence on Health and Related Behaviors." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (6 February 2024).
10. O'Halloran, Patrick L.
Gender Differences in Formal On-The-Job Training: Incidence, Duration, and Intensity
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,4 (December 2008): 629-659.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00427.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Sex; Gender Differences; Training, On-the-Job

This paper explores whether there is a gender gap in the incidence, duration, intensity, and number of events of on-the-job training. Overall, women appear to receive a higher incidence of on-the-job training whereas men receive on-the-job training of longer duration. Including measures intended to capture the extent of labor force attachment and expected tenure fails to reduce the gender gap in the duration of on-the-job training. Therefore, the gender gap in the duration of on-the-job training must be attributed to differences in unobserved worker characteristics that differ by gender or discrimination.
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O'Halloran, Patrick L. "Gender Differences in Formal On-The-Job Training: Incidence, Duration, and Intensity." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 22,4 (December 2008): 629-659.
11. Patrick, Carlianne
Stephens, Heather
Weinstein, Amanda
Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (11 January 2024).
Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12261
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Adolescence; Care Occupations; Childhood; Gender; Gender Equality/Inequality; Gender Gap; Gender Role Attitudes; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Female; Wage Gap

Occupation segregation explains a significant portion of the gender wage gap, with women working in lower paid female-dominated occupations. We examine how childhood and adolescent exposure to gender biased norms about work influence this occupational sorting. We document that early life exposure to traditional gender role attitudes, which view women's role as caretakers, increase women's likelihood of employment in care occupations and decrease the likelihood for men, thereby increasing the gender care occupation gap. A decomposition of the factors affecting this sorting shows that a primary channel is through differences in the choice of post-secondary field of study or major. Our results suggest that traditional gender role attitudes may work to segment the labor market for men and women and contribute to the gender wage gap. This suggests that more egalitarian gender role attitudes which increase the share of men entering care occupations would increase wages for both men and women, lowering the gender wage gap.
Bibliography Citation
Patrick, Carlianne, Heather Stephens and Amanda Weinstein. "Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (11 January 2024).
12. Stevans, Lonnie K.
Immigration and Occupational Crowding in the United States
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 10,2 (Summer 1996): 357-374.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.1996.tb00089.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Human Capital; Immigrants; Mobility; Mobility, Occupational; Occupational Choice; Occupations; Racial Differences; Skilled Workers; Skills; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Effects

The 1990 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is utilized to explore the effects that the occupational crowding of immigrants has on the real wage of indigenous and non-U.S. citizen workers already in the United States. Findings include adverse wage effects as a result of the crowding of immigrants on the following worker categories: (1) indigenous, unskilled, white or black workers and (2) non-U.S. citizen, skilled or unskilled black workers. Foreign-born, skilled, and white workers already in the U.S. realize a positive effect on their real wages as a result of having a large relative number of non-U.S. citizens in their occupations.
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Stevans, Lonnie K. "Immigration and Occupational Crowding in the United States." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 10,2 (Summer 1996): 357-374.
13. Tripp, Sophie
Fadlon, Yariv
Promotions and Race: An Analysis of Wage Returns and Job Satisfaction
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (24 November 2019): DOI: 10.1111/labr.12169.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/labr.12169
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Job Promotion; Job Satisfaction; Racial Differences; Wage Gap; Wages

Using a nationally representative sample of workers in the United States, we find evidence to suggest the wage returns to promotions for black males are about 48 per cent of the wage returns that white males earn. As black males earn, on average, significantly less than white males, the gap in the wage returns to promotions creates a larger impact on the absolute returns. Despite the racial gap in the monetary reward to a promotion, we do not find evidence to suggest that black males are less satisfied with their job following a job promotion compared with white males.
Bibliography Citation
Tripp, Sophie and Yariv Fadlon. "Promotions and Race: An Analysis of Wage Returns and Job Satisfaction." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (24 November 2019): DOI: 10.1111/labr.12169.