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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University of Chicago Press
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113706 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381 |