Essays in labor economics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on topics in labor economics. The first chapter analyzes whether female executives reduce gender gaps in establishments. Using matched employer-employee data from Germany, I compare establishments with male to female executive changes to those with male to male changes. I estimate that female executives increase female employment shares by 14 percent (3.4ppt) and female earnings ratios by 5 percent (4ppt). Using survey data administered by the German Federal Employment Agency, I find no evidence of female executives changing operational working hours, providing greater childcare assistance or implementing policies to promote gender equality. Overall, I conclude female executives do reduce gender gaps within establishments. The second chapter analyzes the labor market consequences of co-location problems dual career couples face. Using the Current Population Survey, I document that married individuals are less likely to move, both within and across states. In the second part of the paper, I analyze responses to exogenous shocks that prompt migration. In particular I analyze the out-migration responses to unemployment shocks to individuals using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. I find that single individuals are significantly more likely to move out of their states following a negative employment shock, in comparison to individuals with partners. The third and final chapter analyzes how access to roads and highways have improved agricultural household's abilities to cope with local productivity shocks. In joint work with Yiming He, we build a theoretical model with precise empirical predictions; household's equilibrium employment in agricultural and non-agriculture should respond more to shocks when located closer to roads. The changes in wages on the other hand will be smaller. These empirical predictions are tested with a difference-in-difference model
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Bhide, Anita |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Pistaferri, Luigi |
| Thesis advisor | Sorkin, Isaac |
| Degree committee member | Pistaferri, Luigi |
| Degree committee member | Sorkin, Isaac |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Anita Bhide |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2020 by Anita Bhide
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