While a stated goal of minimum wage increases is to benefit low-income workers, some employers are not obligated to … and H2-A workers (temporary nonimmigrant workers lawfully admitted to perform temporary or seasonal agricultural services …) are protected by minimum wage legislation, while other migrant workers (especially those who are paid piece rate) are …

Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We … examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree … between 1992 and 1996, 24 percent of full-time workers who had retiree health benefits lost their coverage, while 15 percent …

for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment, both reinforced by a prevalent environment of overdue … shareholdings in the firm. Workers tend to have higher arrears in rural regions with low hiring rates, concentrated labor markets … effect on workers' quit behavior, and we show empirically that the effect varies negatively with the extent of the practice …