Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (July 18, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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The problem with which this study is concerned is that of discrimination. Data from the United States Bureau of the Census is used to approach the problem through the concept of economic discrimination. This study has two purposes. First, it tests the hypothesis that blacks in the South have been subjected to significant economic discrimination, and, in turn, to give quantitative estimates of its magnitude if the hypothesis is accepted. The secondary purpose is to make a comparison of the relative importance of the independent variables for blacks and whites.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 504-522). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

The thesis examines the effect of tenure on earnings in the British public and private sectors. The characteristic differences between the labour markets associated with the two sectors are examined. Several theories underlying the earnings-tenure effect are then assessed for their suitability in explaining earnings patterns in each of the sectors under analysis. Cross sectional estimation is carried out using one year of the New Earnings Survey Panel. The results show a higher return to tenure in central and local government than in the private sector or public corporations. There also appears to be a higher return to tenure for females in all sectors than for males. Explanations are offered for these observations, based on the labour market characteristics of the sectors noted earlier. An attempt is then made to correct for estimation biases associated with job match heterogeneity, which are purported to overstate return to tenure. The correction is based on techniques adopted in the recent American literature using instrumental variables. Despite the use of this process, the expected decrease in return to tenure is not observed unless certain key variables are omitted from the estimating equation.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Economics, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 103 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

The capitalization effect of property tax differentials for the four market quarters in 1976 was studied in the Logan, Utah market area. A secondary aspect of the study was to assess the variations in the assessed to market value ratio. 107 observed sales were used for the data set. Age of structure, square feet in structure, quality of neighborhood, and property tax were noted for each property sold. From the regression analysis it was found that there was a significant capitalization of the tax differentials. The results indicate that a one-percent change in the property tax will result in a 0.4 percent change in property value. Also observed was the assessed to market value ratio. Results indicate that the actual ratio is about 12.5 percent not 20 percent, as is required by state law. The range in the ratio was from about 4 precent to 20 percent.

Abstract  This study investigates the native-immigrant earnings differential in self-employment and wage employment in Sweden. The main research question is whether the earnings differential between immigrants and natives differs when immigrants are self-employed. Thereafter, we want to be able to find a critical conclusion in which we can explain the increase or decrease in the different earning groups. Sweden is one of the multinational countries in Europe with a rapidly growing immigrant population. The question that was studied in this essay is analyzed in many ways by economists and researchers. Many previous research discuss the immigrant’s employment propensities and whether immigrants earn more or less in self-employment compared to wage-employment in the labor market.  Theories such as human capital, discrimination and many more, not only explain immigrants’ earnings in the labor market but even discuss the reasons. In our essay we focus on immigrants' earnings relative to natives’. We collected integrated data from the European Social Survey (ESS) between years 2002 - 2018. In the study, we applied the ordinary least squares (OLS) method and conducted immigrants as a dummy variable. Our results suggest that immigrants earn 1.2% lower in self-employment and 9.3% lower in wage-employment relative to natives. Although immigrants earn less than natives in both sectors.  This difference is smaller when immigrants are self-employed. Our results can be supported theoretically that immigrants might be exposed to discrimination in a lower degree in self-employment than wage-employment. Additionally, immigrants might choose to be self-employed to avoid lower earnings in wage employment