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Gender Differences in Faculty Turnover
Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995
Over the last 15 to 20 years, colleges and universities have paid increasing attention to attracting and retaining faculty women. The rate of progress of women in academe has nevertheless been painfully slow. For example, statistics on economists collected and published by the American Economic...
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Job Growth and the Quality of Jobs in the U.S. Economy
Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995
During the 1980's employment grew rapidly in the United States, prompting many analysts to label the U.S. economy the great American job machine. But while aggregate employment increased rapidly during the 1980's, many did not benefit from the expansion. Among less educated prime-age males,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102004
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The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001
This paper considers the effect of child care costs on two labor market outcomes for single mothers whether to participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the sample (using data drawn from the 1992 and 1993 panels...
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The Optimal Dole with Risk Aversion, Job Destruction, and Worker Heterogeneity
Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997
This paper extends earlier research on optimal unemployment insurance (UI) by developing an equilibrium search model that encompasses simultaneously several theoretical and institutional features that have been treated one-by-one (or not at all) in previous discussions of optimal UI. In...
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Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: bridging Research and Practice
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The contirbutors to this book provide a provocative assessment of the effectiveness of various policies and practices designed to help disadvantaged segments of our population overcome the obstacles in their path to upeard economic mobility.
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The Job Search Intensity Supply Curve: How Labor Market Conditions Affect Job Search Effort
Schwartz, Jeremy - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can...
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Reemployment Incentives for Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries: Results from the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Spiegelman, Robert G.; Kline, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
may prolong spells of unemployment. Evidence from a field experiment conducted in Illinois in 1984 suggested that offering … program costs. In 1988 a similar experiment, examining several different bonus offers, was conducted in Washington State …. Evidence from the Washington experiment indicates that bonus offers do change job seeking behavior, but that only relatively …
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015
We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...
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Military Retention Incentives: Evidence from the Air Force Selective Reenlistment Bonus
Joffrion, Justin; Wozny, Nathan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015
The limited lateral entry and rigid pay structure for U.S. military personnel present challenges in retaining skilled individuals who have attractive options in the civilian labor market. One tool the services use to address this challenge is the Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB), which offers...
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Of Heart and Mind: Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan
Mangum, Garth (contributor); Mangum, Stephen (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The essays in this volume, authored by close friends, associates and students, pay tribute to Sar Levitan and the enduring mark he left on the field of social policy. The book is loosely organized around the method of analysis taught and practiced by Levitan: identifying problems through the...
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