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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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Complementarity and Custom in Contract Violation

Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

We analyze a model of wage delay in which strategic complementarity arises because each employer's costs of violating its contracts decrease with the arrears in its labor market. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification through fixed...

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2003

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

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International Trade and Money Wage Growth in the 1980s by Susan Vroman and Wayne Vroman

Jacobson, Louis S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States

Hashimoto, Masanori - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This study offers a comparative analysis of a number of Japanese labor market features in relation to the U.S. The author examines employer-employee attachment, workforce adjustment, and industrial relations including "unique" Japanese institutions such as joint consultation and consensus-based...

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Trade Assistance: An Assessment

Jacobson, Louis S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 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 …. Our findings raise questions about the incentive structure of many government employment programs that emphasize rapid …

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The Decline of Fringe-Benefit Coverage in the 1980s

Woodbury, Stephen A.; Bettinger, Douglas R. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Economics of Sports

Kern, William S. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The contributors to this book, all economists at the forefront of the movement to study the economics of sports, show how a host of contemporary economic issues come into play in today's world of sports. These issues include industrial organization, influences on labor markets, monopsony power,...

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