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Angela Daley

University of Maine, USA

World of Labor provides timely information about labor issues, in a way that is accessible to people regardless of their background and expertise. I am pleased to be part of an initiative that supports evidence-based labor policy

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Author

Current position

Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Maine, USA

Research interest

Applied microeconomics, labor economics, health economics, policy

Website

https://umaine.edu/soe/daley/

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2016

Selected publications

  • "The effects of recent minimum wage increases on self-reported health in the United States." Social Science and Medicine 305 (2022): 115110 (with L. Sigaud, J. Rubin, and C. Noblet).

  • "A breath of fresh air: The effect of public smoking bans on Indigenous youth." Health Economics 30:6 (2021): 1517–1539 (with M. Rahman and B. Watson).

  • "Blown off-course? Weight gain among the economically insecure during the great recession." Journal of Economic Psychology 80 (2020): 102289 (with B. Watson, N. Rohde, and L. Osberg).

  • "Literacy, numeracy, technology skill, and labour market outcomes among Indigenous peoples in Canada." Canadian Public Policy 45:1 (2019): 48–73 (with M. Hu and C. Warman).

  • "Rural-urban differences in the decline of adolescent cigarette smoking." American Journal of Public Health 109:5 (2019): 771–773 (with E. C. Ziller, J. D. Lenardson, N. C. Paluso, and J. A. Talbot).

article(s)

  • Language proficiency and immigrants’ economic integration

    It is vital to measure language proficiency well, as it crucially determines immigrants’ earnings

    Angela DaleyMin HuCasey Warman, December 2019
    Over recent decades, Western countries have admitted many immigrants from non-traditional regions (e.g. Philippines, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of economic integration; in addition to being a component of human capital, it plays a key role in facilitating the transmission of other components of human capital. Examining the strengths and weaknesses of objective and subjective measures of language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and earnings, a key indicator of economic integration.
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