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measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk …
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contributes to the U.S.'s comparative success in creating jobs for its population, the slow growth in employment in many European …-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers … -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater rate than most countries. The leading explanation for this phenomenon …
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This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent labor market success. We begin with a simple theoretical model that describes the determination of schooling and earnings with varying school quality. A key insight of the model...
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We re-examine recent cross-state evidence on the employment effect of the minimum wage. A re-evaluation of the data … wage has an adverse effect on teenage employment. Neumark and Wascher's findings are shown to be due to an inadvertent …'s (1992a) conclusion that the 1990 increase in the Federal minimum had no adverse employment effect. Lastly, we find that …
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work on unemployment insurance (UI) and workers' compensation (WC) insurance finds that the programs tend to increase the … the incidence and duration of claims are close to 1.0 for unemployment insurance and between 0.5 and 1.0 for workers …
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This paper uses a new administrative micro-data set to examine the effect of a legislated increase in the minimum and maximum workers' compensation benefit on the duration of workplace injuries in Minnesota. As a result of legislation, workers in some earnings groups received higher benefits if...
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away from existing jobs is another key determinant of equilibrium, because a worker with an existing job has a better … outside option in bargaining than does an unemployed worker. Our survey measures the incidences of wage posting, bargaining … their employers, a sign of wage posting. We find that another third bargained over pay before accepting their current jobs …
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-industry changes in skill utilization rather than between- industry employment shifts. Industries with large increases in the rate of …
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the Texas fast food industry. Third, employment increased relatively in those firms likely to have been most affected by …. These employment and price changes do not seem consistent with conventional views of the effects of increases in a binding …
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regional evolutions of employment and unemployment in Sweden and the U.S. Lastly, we present cross-country analysis for 1993 … programs, mobility bonuses, and unemployment benefits. Using county-level data, we provide new evidence that public relief … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …
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