scholarly journals The effect of gender-specific labor market conditions on children’s weight

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongkyun Kim ◽  
Michael R. Thomsen ◽  
Rodolfo M. Nayga ◽  
Anthony Goudie
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
American Children ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract Background Macroeconomic conditions are widely known to influence health outcomes through direct behavioral change or indirect mental effects of individuals. However, they have not received much attention in relation to childhood obesity. Methods Using gender-specific predicted employment growth rates as an index for labor market conditions, we analyze how economic shocks affect children’s weight status in Arkansas. To understand the underlying mechanisms behind these results, we use data on individual time use to examine how economic shocks are related to activities related to children’s weight. Results Improvement in the female labor market is associated with an increase in body mass index (BMI) and the probability that a child is overweight or obese, while an improvement in the male labor market has no significant effects on children’s weight. This impact is particularly evident among female children, older children, and African-American children. We also find a negative effect of improvements in the female labor market on time spent on preparation for foods at home. Conclusions These results suggest that a decrease in time spent preparing home-cooked foods might be a plausible explanation for the pro-cyclical relationship between children’s weight and improvement in the labor market conditions. Thus, the policy implications of our paper should be aimed at mitigating the adverse effects of women’s labor participation.

scholarly journals Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

ILR Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Verhoogen ◽  
Stephen V. Burks ◽  
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Wage Rates

The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the attractiveness of the wage paid by the firm relative to employees' options in the outside labor market. The authors find robust associations between the wage-fairness perceptions of employees in the firm and two indicators of local conditions—the rate of unemployment and the wages of similar workers in the outside market. They argue that these correlations reflect a causal relationship: an increase in unemployment or a decrease in outside wages led workers to perceive their wage to be more fair.

scholarly journals Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 158-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Dix-Carneiro ◽  
Rodrigo R. Soares ◽  
Gabriel Ulyssea
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Temporary Increase ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Exogenous Shocks ◽  
Tariff Reductions

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what channels the trade–induced economic shocks may have affected crime. We show that the shocks had significant effects on potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a novel framework exploiting the distinct dynamic responses of these variables to obtain bounds on the effect of labor market conditions on crime. Our results indicate that this channel accounts for 75 to 93 percent of the effect of the trade–induced shocks on crime. (JEL D31, F13, F16, H41, K42, O17, O19)

Labor Market Uncertainties for Youth and Young Adults: An International Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 688 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Market Uncertainties

A crisis for youth labor market conditions has been building globally for more than two decades, reflected in the persistently high rates of youth unemployment around the world, which is about three times as high as that for adults. About one in five young people are not in education, employment, or training, and a large share of young adults are working in the informal economy or in precarious conditions. This volume includes a collection of thirteen articles that examine the causes, patterns, and consequences of labor market uncertainties for youth and young adults in Europe, Latin/South America, the United States, and Asia, as well as a concluding article. They reveal vast inequalities among young people, with those having the least education and lowest skills, females, those with low family socioeconomic status (SES), ethnic minorities, and migrants being the most vulnerable. In this introduction, we describe the global trends and regional variation in labor market conditions for young people, explicate the importance of integrating young people into labor markets, and summarize the findings and policy implications of these articles.

Business management in the light of cultural diversity in the labor market

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
René Pawera ◽  
Monika Lavrovičová ◽  
Lucia Húsenicová
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Inequality

An important element of the management of modern companies and organizations is the proper use of diversity management and equal opportunities, aimed at eliminating discrimination in the labor market. The paper summarizes the starting points for these processes in the labor market. It describes the tendencies of the development of the solved problem in the context of the labor market conditions of the Slovak Republic. Key words: labor market inequality, equal opportunities management, diversity management

scholarly journals Assessing the Change in Labor Market Conditions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hess T. Chung ◽  
Bruce Fallick ◽  
Christopher J. Nekarda ◽  
David Ratner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions
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