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Temporary help services (THS) firms are increasing their hiring of disadvantaged individuals and claiming more subsidies for doing so. Do these subsidies—the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW)—create incentives that improve employment outcomes for THS...
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time of the March interview. The estimates suggest that the wages of last year's job affect current employment and earnings …, but the effects of wages are more modest than might be expected. The industry and occupation of last year's job make a …-wage jobs or jobs in industries such as hospitals or educational services. wages of last year's job affect current employment …
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Inner-city business development is often proposed as a solution to inner-city poverty. However, research evidence suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of the inner city poor. Public subsidies for inner city...
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Black immigrants from the British West Indies and their descendants have long held the interest of historians and sociologists because they provide a means of understanding the influence of differing cultural background on black economic progress. Numerous accounts from before World War II...
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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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returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …
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