Browsing by Subject "Employment"

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    2021 Fall Career Fairs for LSBE, CAHSS, and CEHSP (2021)
    (2021) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
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    2021 Fall Career Fairs for SCSE (2021)
    (2021) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
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    Accounting & Finance Career Day (2022-09-22 and 2022-09-23)
    (2022) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career Center
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    American Indians on the East Side of St Paul
    (2000) Community Outreach Partnership Center; American Indian Research and Policy Institute
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    Business, Humanities & Communication Career Fair (2022-10-06 and 2022-10-07)
    (2022) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career Center
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    Case Studies of Transportation Investment to Identify the Impacts on the Local and State Economy
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2013-01) Iacono, Michael; Levinson, David
    This project provides case studies of the impact of transportation investments on local economies. We use multiple approaches to measure impacts since the effects of transportation projects can vary according to the size of a project and the size of the area under study, as well as other exogenous factors such as existing economic and demographic conditions. We measure effects on economic output and employment to estimate impacts of specific investments, and address issues of generative versus redistributive effects of investments, as well as identify specific economic sectors that might be disproportionately affected by such investments.
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    Challenges and Suggestions for Employing Ex-Offenders
    (2018) Hartigan, Emma
    The aim of this research is to find the best practices for companies who are willing to work with employees that have criminal backgrounds. With negative connotations that are automatically associated with an ex-offender, it can be nearly impossible to find work, and just as hard maintain employment. This may be due to a variety of different factors, one of which being the way that managers approach this challenge. According to the findings, openness, masculinity, moderate power distance, long-term orientation are some of the key factors in maintaining a useful working relationship between employees in this demographic and employers. In the following report, I review literature and delve into my own research regarding the importance of this topic and distinguish strategies for management to find meaningfulness out of helping these high-risk individuals keep employment.
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    Data Sources for Use in Conducting Travel Behavior Research: A Case Study of Reverse Commuting Among Low-Income Residents of Minneapolis
    (1994-08) Loughlin, Melissa J.; Wyly, Elvin K.; Adams, John S.
    This study demonstrates applicability of two distinct data sources for travel behavior research. Questions relating to reverse-commuting are raised with respect to all working residents, and working residents in low-income households located in Minneapolis. Census of Population and Housing, 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) and the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council Travel Behavior Inventory (TBI) provide details on aspects of commute and travel patterns. Examining organization and methods of analysis appropriate to determining particular travelrelated information presents a unique perspective on the advantages and shortcomings of each data set. PUMS data provide detailed household and work-journey information. To answer reverse-commuting questions posed in this study, we consider household income, worker occupation, state and Public Use Microdata Area of employment, number of persons in each household, means of transportation used for the journey to work, and work journey duration. TBI data contain a wealth of information on both the work journey and other trips, but lack the depth of socioeconomic data available in the PUMS file. The value of TBI data in responding to this series of questions lies in the details about trip location and purpose.
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    E-fest: Engineering, Computer Science & Science Career Fair (2014)
    (2014) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
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    E-fest: Engineering, Computer Science & Science Career Fair (2015)
    (2015) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
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    E-FEST: Engineering, Computer Science & Science Job & Internship Fair (2019)
    (2019) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
    Internships, Co-ops, & Full-Time Opps; On-Campus Interviews: Sept 12 & 13
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    Engineering, Computer Science & Science Career Fair (2013)
    (2013) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
    Internships, Full-time positions, Employer information, Interviews
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    Essays in International Macroeconomics
    (2024-05) Ranjan, Abhitesh
    This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I study trends in FDI in emerging economies. I document that 1) China has greater inward FDI stock, and India has lower inward FDI stock relative to Mexico; 2) the inward FDI stock in India is converging to the Mexican stock level; 3) the inward FDI stock in India relative to that in China converges toa value that is less than one, in other words, the inward FDI stock in India will not overtake that in China. I build a model of capital flow across countries that incorporates agglomeration and dispersion effect. Agglomeration effect makes capital more productive as its level rises. Dispersion effect makes capital more production when population (labor supply) is higher. Using the model, I show that higher population (lower dispersion) in China dominating agglomeration affect in Mexico results in large inflow of FDI in China relative to Mexico. Similarly, India will catch up with Mexico due to its high population (low dispersion). However, the inward FDI stock in India relative to China remains low because higher agglomeration effect in China dominates lower dispersion effect in India. In the second chapter, I document 1) higher initial inward FDI stock in Brazil, and 2) lower dispersion (higher population) in Brazil relative to Mexico. However, over time Mexico catches up with Brazil. I explain this contradictory data with intermediate inputs in production process. Third chapter documents positive correlation between employment and reserve-gdp ratio. To explain the mechanism behind the positive correlation, I build a dynamic stochastic model that features reserve accumulation by the government, and foreign intermediaries that are subject to capital control and financial friction. Following mechanism is then proposed. The reserve accumulation by the government is sterilized by issuing debt in the domestic financial market. The increase in government debt crowds out household borrowing. The reduced household borrowing increases employment due to income effect. The model is calibrated using Mexican data. To establish the validity of the mechanism I show that the correlation between reserve and employment, and reserve and household saving in the calibrated model and data are of the same sign.
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    Essays in Macroeconomics
    (2017-06) Ding, Kai
    This dissertation consists of two essays. In the first essay, Enoch Hill and I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model in which an increase in the importance of firm-specific human capital is able to account for two key changes in business cycle patterns in the U.S. since mid-1980s: jobless recoveries and the reversal in the cyclicality of labor productivity. Additionally, we present empirical support that the importance of firm-specific human capital has indeed increased in importance for recent recessions. In the second essay, Zhifeng Cai and I develop a macroeconomic model of financial frictions in order to account for the investment and cash holding behavior of self-financing corporations during the Great Recession. Unlike standard models of financial frictions which impose collateral or borrowing constraints on firms, the financial frictions in our model work through the liquidity channel. In our model, corporate investment is subject to liquidity shocks. Bank credit line and liquid assets are substitutes for financing liquidity shocks. In our model, a tightening of the bank credit line forces firms to hold more liquid assets, increasing the effective cost of capital expenditure hence reducing corporate investment.
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    Family policies or labor markets? women's employment inequality in 14 Welfare States from 1960 to 2008.
    (2010-07) Tranby, Eric
    Women‟s labor force participation has increased dramatically across all advanced capitalist democracies over the last 50 years. However, women continue to face significant employment inequality in hours of employment, pay, and occupational gender segregation. These changes in women‟s employment outcomes have captured the attention of welfare state researchers and policymakers and have radically altered our understanding of the welfare state. In this dissertation, I empirically assess how both welfare state policies and changes in the labor market influence women‟s employment outcomes across 14 welfare states from 1960 to 2008. The countries in this analysis are Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, (West) Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In this research, I focus primarily on family policies, a subset of state social policies that mediate the relationship between the market and family, and allow men and women to engage in care-taking responsibilities without losing their labor market position and rewards. The family policies I consider include parental leaves, publicly funded childcare, and family allowances, support benefits, and tax credits. These policies are intriguing because there is evidence that much of the gap between men‟s and women‟s employment outcomes is caused by motherhood. Family policies are targeted specifically at mothers and families with children, and so should, theoretically, reduce the inequality between men‟s and women‟s employment outcomes. However, there is relatively little research into the role that family polices play in employment inequality at the aggregate level, especially in hours of work, the wage gap, or occupational gender segregation. This dissertation fills in that research gap by investigating the impact of family policies on women‟s labor force participation rates, women‟s rate of and share of part-time work and involuntary part-time work, the male/female wage gap, and occupational gender segregation, while accounting for other welfare state policies and activities and labor market factors that have been linked to women‟s employment outcomes. In my analysis, I find that parental leaves increase labor force participation rates among young women and reduce the male-female wage gap. Publicly funded childcare increases labor force participation rates among young women, decreases women‟s concentration in part-time employment and in involuntary part-time employment, and reduces the male-female wage gap. Importantly, neither parental leaves nor childcare policies appear to be strongly related to occupational gender segregation. On the other hand, family allowances and support benefits decrease labor force participation rates for women ages 25-34 and increase occupational gender segregation. My analysis provides evidence that generous maternity and parental leaves and high levels of publicly funded childcare work to reduce employment inequality between men and women by reducing inequalities in hours of work and reducing the male-female pay gap. The finding for the pay gap is particularly exciting because recent research has found that much of the pay gap across countries has been shown to be due to motherhood. I conclude with implications and directions for future research.
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    Head of the Lakes Job & Internship Fair (2013-10-03)
    (2013) University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
    Full-time employment, Internships, Employer Information, Interviews