returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …

determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …

.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … response to improvements in the economy, which leads caseload reductions to be associated with improvements in labor market … that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and …

students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor …

This book provides a systematic review of what current statistics and data on working-age people with disabilities can …

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate … paid substantially more to agency help to avoid raising wages for their regular workers and to fill vacancies while they … facilitated the use of more "risky" workers by lowering their wages and benefits and the costs of firing them. The use of agency …

-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … have little effect on the poor's employment or market wages, although paying wage subsidies to the poor increases take …Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …

Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …