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Item Mitigating labor shortages: investigating the efficacy of return to work programs(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2023) Reis-Henrie, Justin Nehemiah; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Yang YuAre supply-side interventions effective at combating labor shortages? Many state governments faced tight labor markets as their states re-opened in the late spring of 2021. On May 4th, 2021, Montana announced it would be ending COVID-19 era unemployment schemes early. Additionally, they incentivized the unemployed to find work through a Return to Work (RTW) program. The unemployed would receive $1,200 for getting and keeping a job for four weeks. Similar RTW programs were subsequently adopted by several states. The impact of these RTW programs on labor markets has not yet been investigated. Using data on continued unemployment insurance claims I explore the impact of RTW programs on labor markets with a two-way fixed effects model. I find that RTW programs, at best, on average had a marginal negative impact on unemployment. However, I find a large degree of RTW heterogeneity with some states seeing large and statistically significant impacts. Additionally, I present a number of case studies to demonstrate the consequences of outreach and accessibility on RTW programs.Item Estimating the impact of high-speed internet on teen and young adult labor force participation(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2021) Bridgewater, Samuel Edward; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Gregory GilpinHigh-speed residential internet access was rolled out in the United States in the early 2000's. While the advent of high-speed internet brought with it a lot of positive changes, like greater access to information (Dettling 2017) or flexibility in working arrangements for working parents (Dettling 2018), it also ushered in a new era of inexpensive and high-quality leisure activities. During this same period of time, teens and young adults are observed leaving the labor force. This thesis uses a Bartik or shift share instrument and variation in rollout of high-speed residential internet access to estimate the impact on teen and young adult labor force participation decisions. The results find that both students and non-students younger than 25 are less likely to participate in the labor force, and males were more profoundly impacted than females.Item An econometric analysis of the impact of energy development on agricultural labor markets(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 1984) Ingebrigtson, Karl BrentItem Opportunities and outcomes in the U.S. labor market, 1967-1981(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 1984) Romeo, Charles JohnItem A study of the aggregate United States labor supply function(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 1984) Oster, Jeanette MarieItem The effect of divorce risk on the labor force participation of women with and without children(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2005) Genadek, Katie Rose; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Wendy A. Stock.This paper examines the effects of divorce risk on the labor force participation responses of married women. The empirical analysis uses a difference-in-difference-in-difference estimator to compare changes in labor force participation associated with the passage of state-level divorce laws, focusing on the responses of married women with children relative to married women without children. The most important new finding is that married mothers have greater labor force participation responses to no-fault divorce laws than do married non-mothers in states with such laws, even after controlling for differences in labor force participation among married women with and without children in states without no-fault divorce laws. The results suggest that the probability of being in the labor force associated with no-fault divorce law is about 5 percent higher for women with children relative to women without children. Previous research has underestimated the effect of divorce laws on female labor force participation because it failed to account for differences between women with and without children.