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The Effects of Temporary Services and Contracting Out on Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from Auto Suppliers, Hospitals, and Public Schools

Erickcek, George; Houseman, Susan; Kalleberg, Arne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in manufacturing (automotive supply), services (hospitals),...

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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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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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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-skilled workers.

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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 …

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Earnings Inequality in Germany

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings …

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Service Workers

Hertz, Tom - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and … total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per …

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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David; Lee, David S.; Pei, Zhuan; Weber, Andrea - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …

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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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