Identifier
etd-07022015-120634
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Economics
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
In this dissertation, I present three distinct topics on labor economics that can be read independently from one another. In the first chapter, using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I investigate the impact of mothers’ involuntary job loss on children’s academic achievement. In the next chapter, I examine the impact of eye and hair color on wages-at-first-job after schooling. In addition, I investigate whether hair color has an impact on the wage-at-the-first-job if the individual resides among people who have similar features. In the last chapter, I examine the impact of unemployment insurance benefit generosity on benefit duration and labor market transitions in Turkey with a regression discontinuity design.
Date
2015
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.
Recommended Citation
Filiz, Sukriye Elif, "Essays in Labor Economics" (2015). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 1912.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1912
Committee Chair
Mocan, H. Naci
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.1912