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This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …
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employers over the issues of employment, wages and working time has proved to be influential in a much wider industrial context …
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the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in … compensation and employment and labor law or workers and their unions do not block companies from such substitution. Often, however …
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Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is expensive, yields small samples, and presumes that the analyst knows which categories of expenditure are necessary. This paper uses an existing large data set, and an agnostic approach....
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are more likely to stay healthy. And they may want to provide pension benefits to workers to relieve workers of the burden … to pension plans represent an addition to wealth that would be taxed at the time they are made. The interest earned on … pension contributions also represents an addition to wealth that would be taxed annually. When a worker retires, all …
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benefits. Workers in such arrangements, in turn, are much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits … on the job. This paper documents these differences in coverage by benefits regulations and differences in benefits … arrangements. Although reducing benefits costs is not the only reason employers use flexible staffing arrangements, it is an …
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difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to estimate the causal effects of … mandated sick pay on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly affected by …
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The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers' job losses. To estimate the magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and...
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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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