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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium
Aldy, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of these events on Gulf Coast employment and wages. Despite … coastal parishes, and oil-intensive parishes in particular, experienced a net increase in employment and wages. In contrast …
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International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John; Konings, Josef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an …
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Moreau, Antoine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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