Essays on urban life and labor supply of women

详细信息   

• 作者：Won ; Dongkyu
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2015
• 关键词：Social sciences ; Women workers ; Urban life ; Congestio
• 导师：Banzhaf,H. Spencer
• 毕业院校：Georgia State University
• Department：Economics
• 专业：Womens studies;Economics
• ISBN：9781321777147
• CBH：3704984
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：1659520
• Pages：88

文摘

This dissertation focuses on two main research questions related to the effect of a factor in a local labor market. Both relate to a finding of Black et al. (2014) that married women are less likely to work in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) with more traffic congestion. The first essay evaluates the appropriateness of an MSA as a geographical entity in estimating the effect of congestion on labor supply of married women. One concern with such aggregated data is that they do not take into account within-city variation in congestion. In order to address this issue,I replicate the works by Black et al. (2014) at smaller geographical levels. Once the coefficient on commute time at each level is estimated,I compare the coefficients from smaller geographical entities with one from the MSA to examine if they are statistically similar. I find that an MSA is a geographically proper unity when the effect of commute time on the LFP of married women is examined. Additionally,I explore whether commuting time has also a significant effect on other related to labor market issues. First,I find longer commuting time is associated with shorter weekly working time of high school educated women. Secondly,fewer married women are self-employed in the area with longer commuting time.