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Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
Temporary-help jobs offer rapid entry into paid employment, but they are typically brief and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We utilize the unique structure of Detroit's welfare-to-work program to identify the effect of temporary-help jobs on labor market advancement....
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The Working Life: The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs
Maxwell, Nan L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Maxwell extablishes the link between skills and low-skilled jobs and reveals the state of he labor market facing low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472706
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Some Reflections on the Use of Administrative Data to Estimate the Net Impacts of Workforce Programs in Washington State
Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the results, methodology, and processes used in a series of net labor market impact studies done for the State of Washington over the past six years. All of the studies relied on administrative data and used a technique referred to as quasi-...
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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...
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Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets
Hyclak, Thomas - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
groups. In addition, he concentrates on the jobs and the skills required as the primary determinant of wages, an approach, he …Hyclak examines changes in the structure of wages paid for some 40 different jobs found in four different occupational …
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Employment Relations and Wages: What Can We Learn from Subjective Assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with … predictions of at least three theoretical frameworks: human capital theory, search theory, and a “locus of control” model. …
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Understanding Wages: Structure, Uncertainty, Inequality
Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Alpert, William T. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of...
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Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets
Hyclak, Thomas; Johnes, Geraint - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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