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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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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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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 evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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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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Earnings of Balck Immigrants: Implications for Racial Discrimination

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

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Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform

Weber, Bruce A. (contributor); Duncan, Greg J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas. …

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The Effects of Metropolitan Job Growth on the Size Distribution of Family Income

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991

This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the...

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Solving the Many Problems with Inner City Jobs

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000

suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of … public services. A different set of policies must be used to increase the earnings of the inner city poor. These employment … poverty problem, any realistic policy to significantly reduce inner-city poverty through enhanced earnings will require tens …

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The Employment and Earnings Impacts of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit

Hollenbeck, Kevin; Willke, Richard J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991

workers. This intervention into the labor market has direct and indirect earnings and employment consequences for both …

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