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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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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 the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...

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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures

Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the …

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

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 … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …

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Skill-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from a Firm-Level Survey

Siegel, Donald S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Siegel provides evidence that technology adoption is associated with downsizing, skill upgrading, greater employee … technology usage and labor composition which enable him to link the magnitude of labor market outcomes for six classes of workers …

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Women's Work after War

Kleykamp, Meredith A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …

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Does "Trickle Down" Work? Economic Development and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets

Persky, Joseph; Felsenstein, Daniel; Carlson, Virginia - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Persky, Felsenstein, and Carlson explore a new framework for evaluating state and local economic development efforts. They propose a method, referred to as the "job-chains approach," that they say clarifies the potential justifications for economic development subsidies as well as the...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition

Klein, Michael W.; Schuh, Scott; Triest, Robert K. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The authors present a picture of how the effects of international trade on employment in U.S. manufacturing industries …

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International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Davidson and Matusz extend the traditional analysis of international trade to allow for labor markets characterized by workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such extensions are easily accomplished and that they provide...

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