Supply side fantasies and precarious part-time academic labor

Precarious employment, bad jobs, labor unions, and early retirement.

OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to "bad jobs," and labor union membership across the life course are associated with the risk of early retirement. METHODS Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a large (N=8,609) sample of men and women who graduated from high school in 1957, we estimated discrete-time event history models for the transition...

Female Labor Supply with a Discontinuous, Nonconvex Budget Constraint: Incorporation of a Part-time/full-time Wage Differential

This paper incorporates the well-documented part-time/fulltime wage differential into an empirical labor supply model with both a heterogeneityand a random-error term and estimates that model for women in the United States. Incorporation of the part-time/full-time wage differential results in a unique discontinuous, nonconvex budget set, and the consideration of estimation procedures previously...

Positive fantasies predict low academic achievement in disadvantaged students

Unlike other forms of positive thinking (e.g., expectations), research finds that positive fantasies (experiencing one’s thoughts and mental images about the future positively) predict low effort and little success in several domains. However, for vocational education students of low socioeconomic status and minority ethnicity, for whom the present environment is especially difficult, perhaps i...

Relative Pay and Labor Supply

The authors use a laboratory experiment to examine the impact of relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to other wage levels will lead to an increase (decrease) in labor supply. They find that labor supply does respond significantly to relative pay, and in the expected direction. However, when a strong enough reaso...

Taxation and Labor Supply Decisions: