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The Intergenerational Supply of Loggers Under Conditions of Declining Economic Well‐Being
Author(s) -
GOLDSTEIN JONATHAN P.,
IRLAND LLOYD C.,
SENICK JENNIFER A.,
BASSETT ERIC W.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00386.x
Subject(s) - earnings , economic shortage , logging , linkage (software) , data logger , economics , supply side , labour economics , microeconomics , ecology , biology , accounting , government (linguistics) , gene , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , operating system
This paper addresses the supply‐side explanations of a logger shortage by estimating an occupational choice model that considers the role of earnings, nonpecuniary determinants and intergenerational factors. Our results showed that: (1) relative earnings have no statistically significant effect on career choice; (2) improvement in the public image of loggers substantially increases entry into logging; and (3) a strong intergenerational supply linkage exists but is currently being eroded.