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Thinking about Local Living Wage Requirements

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

This paper reviews what we currently know about the benefits and costs of different varieties of a "living wage": a local government requirement, now adopted by over 50 local governments, for wages above the federal minimum imposed on employers with some financial link to the local government....

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Income Replacement and Reemployment Programs in Michigan and Neighboring States

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

Governments in every developed industrial economy administer programs that partially replace the earnings of workers who suffer job loss or on-the-job injury. In addition, governments administer programs to help job losers gain reemployment, either through direct job placement (for those who are...

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Job Security and Work Force adjustment: How Different are U.S. and Japanese Practices?

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements: Evidence from an Establishment Survey

Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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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

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Short Hours, Long Hours: Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carre, Francoise; Tilly, Chris - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate— primarily service-producing activities—total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000

Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...

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Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?

Lopresti, John W.; Mumford, Kevin J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

This paper addresses the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers. Most studies assume that there is a simple mechanical increase in the wage for workers earning a wage between the old and the new minimum wage, with some studies allowing for spillovers to...

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Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and …

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The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Lachowska, Marta; Myck, Michal - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

pension wealth created by Poland’s 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish Household Budget Surveys, we begin by … cohorts affected and unaffected by the reform. Next, we estimate the extent of crowd-out by using two-stage least squares. We … explained by the reform. We find that one additional Polish zloty, or PLN, of pension wealth crowds out about 0.24 PLN in …

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