The Wealth of Single Women: Marital Status and Parenthood in the Asset Accumulation of Young Baby Boomers in the United States

Unmarried cohabitation has become a more frequently observed phenomenon over the last three decades, and not only in the United States. The objective of this work is to examine income differentials between married women and those who remain single or cohabitate. The empirical literature shows that, while the marriage premium is verified in different studies for men, the result for women is not conclusive. The main innovation of my study is the existence of controls for selection. In this study, we have two sources of selectivity: into the labor force and into a marital status category. The switching regressions and the Oaxaca decomposition results demonstrate the existence of a significant penalty for marriage. Correcting for both types of selection, the difference in wages varies between 49% and 53%, when married women are compared with cohabiting ones, and favors non-married women. This result points to the existence of a marriage penalty.

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Adult Suicide Mortality in the United States: Marital Status, Family Size, Socioeconomic Status, and Differences by Sex

Social Science Quarterly ◽

10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00652.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 90 (5) ◽

pp. 1167-1185 ◽

Cited By ~ 77

Author(s):

Justin T. Denney ◽

Richard G. Rogers ◽

Patrick M. Krueger ◽

Tim Wadsworth

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Marital Status ◽

Family Size ◽

The United States ◽

Suicide Mortality

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Knowledge Acquisition and Loss

Organizational Knowledge Dynamics - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 207-234

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Knowledge Acquisition ◽

Baby Boomers ◽

Balance Equation ◽

Dynamic Equilibrium ◽

External Environment ◽

The United States ◽

Organizational Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Loss ◽

Energy Conservation Law

Metaphorically, the energy conservation law that is applied to all physical systems can be transferred to organizations as the dynamic equilibrium of organizational knowledge. The balance equation for organizational knowledge includes knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge loss. Knowledge acquisition means to bring in organization fluxes of knowledge from the external environment, while knowledge loss means to have fluxes of knowledge crossing the interface toward the external environment. The purpose of this chapter is to present the main issues that are related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge loss for organizations. Knowledge loss became a hot issue in the last decade when the wave of baby boomers reached the retirement age. In the United States and in Europe, ageing of workforce, as well as the downsizing strategies during economic crises, generated many problems due to knowledge loss, which leads to a decreasing capacity for business competition.

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Socioeconomic Dualism: The Case of Israeli-born Immigrants in the United States

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791838902300205 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 267-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yinon Cohen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Marital Status ◽

Labor Force ◽

Census Data ◽

Past Research ◽

White Collar ◽

The United States ◽

Foreign Born ◽

Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽

Education Industry

Relying on the 1980 U. S. Census of Foreign-Born Population and the 1979 INS Public Use File, this article compares Israeli-born Americans (including Arabs) to both the United States and Israeli populations with respect to age, marital status, unemployment, education, industry, occupation and income as of 1979–80. Some of the results, mainly those pertaining to the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Israeli immigrants as compared to their society of origin, corroborate previous research. Thus, Israeli-born immigrants in the United States held top white-collar jobs and were less likely to be unemployed than the rest of the Israeli labor force. Once in America, however, it seems that not all Israeli-born Americans are as successful as portrayed by past research. In fact, the Census data reveal occupational and economic dualism among the population of Israeli-born Americans. The reasons for this dualism are discussed.

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Rising Trends in Emergency Department Visits Associated With Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States, 2006-2014

Public Health Reports ◽

10.1177/0033354919878437 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 134 (6) ◽

pp. 685-694

Author(s):

Shaoman Yin ◽

Laurie Barker ◽

Eyasu H. Teshale ◽

Ruth B. Jiles

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Emergency Department ◽

Hepatitis C ◽

Baby Boomers ◽

The United States ◽

Emergency Department Visits ◽

Medicare Beneficiaries ◽

Compensated Cirrhosis ◽

Ed Visits ◽

Medicaid Beneficiaries

Objective: Emergency departments (EDs) are critical settings for hepatitis C care in the United States. We assessed trends and characteristics of hepatitis C–associated ED visits during 2006-2014. Methods: We used data from the 2006-2014 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to estimate numbers, rates, and costs of hepatitis C–associated ED visits, defined by either first-listed diagnosis of hepatitis C or all-listed diagnosis of hepatitis C. We assessed trends by demographic characteristics, liver disease severity, and patients’ disposition by using joinpoint analysis, and we calculated the average annual percentage change (AAPC) from 2006 to 2014. Results: During 2006-2014, the rate per 100 000 visits of first-listed and all-listed hepatitis C–associated ED visits increased significantly from 10.1 to 25.4 (AAPC = 13.0%; P < .001) and from 484.4 to 631.6 (AAPC = 3.4%; P < .001), respectively. Approximately 70% of these visits were made by persons born during 1945-1965 (baby boomers); 30% of visits were made by Medicare beneficiaries and 40% by Medicaid beneficiaries. Significant rate increases were among visits by baby boomers (first-listed: AAPC = 13.8%; all-listed: AAPC = 2.6%), persons born after 1965 (first-listed: AAPC = 14.3%; all-listed: AAPC = 9.2%), Medicare beneficiaries (first-listed: AAPC = 18.0%; all-listed: AAPC = 3.9%), and persons hospitalized after ED visits (first-listed: AAPC = 20.0%; all-listed: AAPC = 2.3%; all P < .001). Increasing proportions of compensated cirrhosis were among visits by baby boomers (first-listed: AAPC = 11.5%; all-listed: AAPC = 6.3%). Annual hepatitis C–associated total ED costs increased by 400.0% (first-listed) and 192.0% (all-listed) during 2006-2014. Conclusion: Public health efforts are needed to address the growing burden of hepatitis C care in the ED.

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