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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China

Gan, Li; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yao, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

. Our results show that workers in THS firms earn lower wages than their peers and that this difference is mostly due to the … men and women, earn higher wages in TAW than their peers in other firms, while the opposite holds for prime-age and older … are different. Prime-age and older workers, both male and female, see their wages deteriorate relative to their peers …

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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...

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The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

Estevão, Marcello de Moura Estevão Filho; Lach, Saul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported an extraordinary increase in temporary help supply (THS) employment during the late 1980s and the 1990s. However, little is known about the venues where these THS employees actually work. Our estimates indicate that the proportion of THS employees in...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire equilibrium may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of...

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Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

A disproportionate share of low-skilled U.S. workers is employed by temporary-help firms. These firms offer rapid entry into paid employment, but temporary-help jobs are typically brief, and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We exploit a unique aspect of the city of...

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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

Li, Hongbin; Almond, Douglas; Zhang, Shuang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

sweeping pro-market policies. How did China's excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from … blamed for increased sex ratios during the early 1980s. Our results point to China's watershed economic liberalization as a …

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Incentives and Outcomes: China's Environmental Policy

Deng, Yongheng; Morck, Randall; Wu, Jing; Huang, Jun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

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