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Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game

Connelley, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

In an industrialized economy, it is nearly impossible to engage in market work while simultaneously caring for young children. Thus, if a mother is to engage in such work, someone else must care for her children during work hours. However, non-maternal child care is often expensive or of poor...

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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

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What Works in Work-First Welfare: Designing and Managing Employment Programs in New York City

Feldman, Andrew R. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book is a case study of how New York City's welfare-to-work programs were managed and implemented in the mid 2000s. Feldman also analyzes the unique characteristics that differentiate it from other programs in place across the country.

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A Framework for Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of Workplace Literacy Training

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

Many individuals are grappling with the issue of whether to provide workers with training that upgrades the workers' basic academic skills. The corollary questions that flow from this issue are how to provide the training, how much training should be provided, and who should pay for the...

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Power in the Labor Market: Institutionalist Approaches to Labor Problems

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Labor Law, Industrial Relations, and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s

Block, Richard N.; Beck, John; Kruger, Daniel H. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Block, Beck and Kruger present detailed examples from the testimony given during the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations (commonly called the Dunlop Commission) national and regional hearings. The Commission, by hearing from a wide range of stakeholders, sought to define the...

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Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations

cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel E.; McKersie, Robert B.; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The authors identify and analyze the strategies for change and techniques most often used in today's labor negotiations. Nearly gone, they say, is the traditional "arms length" approach used by negotiators in the past. Instead, modern collective bargaining is characterized mainly by divergent...

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Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States

Block, Richard N. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This volume examines the state of workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. The contributors present empirical evidence to support their innovative ideas for advancing workers' rights.

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Bargaining for Competitiveness: law, Research, and Case Studies

Block, Richard N. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book offers an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining, firm competitiveness, and employment protections and creation in the United States. The contributors provide an overview of the legal framework and the economic and industrial relations research on collective...

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Labor Unions and the Economic Performance of Unions

Hirsch, Barry T. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Hirsch develops a model of union rent-seeking in which the unions capture a share of quasi-rents that make up the normal ROI in long-lived capital and R&D. He finds that in response, firms adjust their investments in vulnerable tangible and intangible capital. Hirsch also attempts to explain the...

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