Overview of labor exchange policies and services / Randall W. Eberts and Harry J. Holzer -- Federal-state relations in labor exchange policy / David E. Balducchi and Alison J. Pasternak -- State and local labor exchange services / Neil Ridley and William A. Tracy -- Labor exchange performance...

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate— primarily service-producing activities—total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

This paper examines three questions: 1) How and why have financial models of doing business emerged in the last three decades? 2) What new forms of financial capitalism have become important in the current period? 3) How do new financial intermediaries, such as private equity, and the financial...