This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …

considerably lower wages. At the same time, the data provide no evidence that early unemployment sets off a vicious cycle of … comparatively poor records later. In order to asses the extent to which differences in later employment and wages are causally … is used to measure the true impact of work experience on wages. The paper concludes that the effects of a period without …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … do not affect the reemployment wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, implying reservation wages do not …

demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …