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Charlene Marie Kalenkoski

James Madison University, USA, and IZA, Germany

It is important to explain to policymakers in a clear and concise way how economic theory and empirical evidence can point the way to better policy

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Department Head and Professor of Economics at James Madison University, USA

Research interest

Time allocation, labor economics, household and family economics, microeconomics

Website

https://www.jmu.edu/cob/faculty/all-faculty/kalenkoski-charlene.shtml

Past positions

Professor, Texas Tech University, School of Financial Planning, 2017-2022, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University, School of Financial Planning, 2016-2021 Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University, Department of Personal Financial Planning, 2014-2016 Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Department of Personal Financial Planning, 2013-2017

Qualifications

PhD Economics, The George Washington University, 2002

Selected publications

  • "Teen Social Interactions and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic," Review of Economics of the Household (2024) (with and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia). Online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-024-09712-x

  • "Parental Disability and Teenagers' Time Allocation," Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 21, No. 4 (2023): 1379-1407 (with S. Wulff Pabilonia).

  • "Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-Employed," Small Business Economics, Vol. 58, No. 2 (2022): 741-768 (with Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia).

  • “Time to work or time to play: The effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time.” Labour Economics 19:2 (2012): 211–221 (with S. Wulff Pabilonia).

  • “Measuring the relative productivity of multitasking to sole-tasking in household production: Experimental evidence.” Applied Economics 47:18 (2015): 1847–1862 (with G. Foster).

article(s)

  • The effects of minimum wages on youth employment, unemployment, and income Updated

    Minimum wages reduce entry-level jobs, training, and lifetime income

    Charlene Marie Kalenkoski, December 2024
    Policymakers often propose a minimum wage as a means of  raising incomes and lifting workers out of poverty. However, improvements in some young workers’ incomes due to a minimum wage come at a cost to others. Minimum wages reduce employment opportunities for youths and create unemployment. Workers miss out on on-the-job training opportunities that would have been paid for by reduced wages upfront but would have resulted in higher wages later. Youths who cannot find jobs must be supported by their families or by the social welfare system. Delayed entry into the labor market reduces the lifetime income stream of young unskilled workers.
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