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We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...
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tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …
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Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …
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Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …
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Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...
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increases labor supply. This paper considers the labor supply effects of the welfare reforms that have occurred since 1993, when … provides new estimates, of how many additional labor force participants have entered the labor force due to welfare reform. I … estimate that welfare reform from 1993-96 increased the U.S. labor force by between 100,000 and 300,000 persons. Between 1996 …
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. Other German labor policies, however, most especially the availability of unemployment insurance benefits for those on short …, German employers rely principally on the adjustment of average hours per worker. The adjustment of overall labor input is …
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,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor offices with persons in self …
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This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar...
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markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self …
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