The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach

Government employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs, of which many are temporary-help jobs. Using data from Detroit’s welfare to-work program and the Chernozhukov-Hansen instrumental variables quantile regression method, we find that n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Houseman, Susan N., Autor, David H, Kerr, Sari
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113706
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381