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Bilingualism, wage differentials and the minimum wage---Three essays in the economics of labor and health.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bilingualism, wage differentials and the minimum wage---Three essays in the economics of labor and health./
Author:	Coomer, Nicole M.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Walter J. Wessels.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3329229
ISBN:	9780549821885

Bilingualism, wage differentials and the minimum wage---Three essays in the economics of labor and health.
Coomer, Nicole M.

Bilingualism, wage differentials and the minimum wage---Three essays in the economics of labor and health. - 134 p.

Adviser: Walter J. Wessels.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2008.

This study analyzes three separate topics in labor economics. The first essay examines bilingual registered nurses (RNs). Bilingual RNs are found to earn higher wages than monolingual nurses. A direct measure of fluency in a language other than English is used to examine the source of the bilingual wage premium. Two avenues for the premium are examined, (1) a response to demand for bilingual workers; and (2) a response to accounting for a portion of innate ability and skills that would otherwise have been unobserved by the firm. Regressing interactions of various language regions and fluency indicators provides limited evidence for the premium arising from an increase in demand for bilinguals. The premium is found to be due to accounting for levels of skill and ability that would otherwise be unknown to the firm.

ISBN: 9780549821885Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Bilingualism, wage differentials and the minimum wage---Three essays in the economics of labor and health.
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520 $a This study analyzes three separate topics in labor economics. The first essay examines bilingual registered nurses (RNs). Bilingual RNs are found to earn higher wages than monolingual nurses. A direct measure of fluency in a language other than English is used to examine the source of the bilingual wage premium. Two avenues for the premium are examined, (1) a response to demand for bilingual workers; and (2) a response to accounting for a portion of innate ability and skills that would otherwise have been unobserved by the firm. Regressing interactions of various language regions and fluency indicators provides limited evidence for the premium arising from an increase in demand for bilinguals. The premium is found to be due to accounting for levels of skill and ability that would otherwise be unknown to the firm.
520 $a The second essay analyzes the wage differential between black and white nurses. The average observed wage of black RNs is higher than that of white RNs in the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). This result is diametrically different from what is seen in most studies of the black-white wage differential. This paper examines the wage differential between black and white nurses in the NSSRN to determine the sources of the differential. Several potential explanations are examined including differing endowments, differing returns to endowments, concentration effects, distribution effects, differences in distaste for positions, shift work, and actual experience. A decomposition of the differential showed that black nurses have on average better endowments than white nurses which leads to higher wages. However, white nurses receive better returns to their endowments on average, an indication of discrimination against blacks. Support is found for a demand side effect and self-selection.
520 $a The third essay examines the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment. Unlike previous studies of the minimum wage which have focused on its effect on overall employment, including uncovered jobs paying less than the minimum wage this study examines the loss of covered jobs paying the minimum wage or higher. Concurrently systematic error in the dependent variable is addressed. The minimum wage elasticity of labor supply for covered employment is significantly more elastic than that for total employment even after correcting for systematic error. The effect of the minimum wage on covered employment is at a minimum three times as large as the effect on total employment.
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