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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age
Farber, Henry S. - 2018
We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …
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Matching in Cities
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2018
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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A Study of the Extent and Potential Causes of Alternative Employment Arrangements
Cappelli, Peter - 2012
The notion of regular, full-time employment as one of the defining features of the U.S. economy has been called into …
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Alternative Work Arrangements
Mas, Alexandre - 2020
Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers' relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers' preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms' decision to offer them, and the impact...
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How Do Alternative Work Arrangements Affect Income Risk after Workplace Injury?
Broten, Nicholas - 2019
understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing … social insurance programs to address this risk. We study employment and earnings risk in the context of workplace injuries … employment and earnings risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing labor market outcomes after injury between temporary and …
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How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?
Munnell, Alicia H. - 2019
Working consistently through one's fifties and early sixties is key to attaining retirement security. However, workers also need access to retirement plans – so they can continue to accumulate resources – and health insurance – so they can avoid withdrawing assets in the event of a health...
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The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995-2015
Katz, Lawrence F.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
To monitor trends in alternative work arrangements, we conducted a version of the Contingent Worker Survey as part of the RAND American Life Panel in late 2015. The findings point to a significant rise in the incidence of alternative work arrangements in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015. The...
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Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Zhang, Liang - 2021
During the last two decades, there has been a significant growth in the share of faculty members at American colleges and universities that are employed in part-time or in full-time non tenure-track positions. Our study is the first to address whether the increased usage of such faculty...
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Flexible Staffing Arrangements and Employers' Short-Term Adjustment Strategies
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2021
This paper reports new evidence from a survey of over 408 U.S. employers concerning their use of temporary and on-call workers. More than 90 percent of responding organizations reported reliance on these flexible staffing arrangements. They accounted for an average of 1.5 percent of total labor...
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