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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 - 2000

This paper examines which employers use flexible staffing arrangements, why they use these arrangements, and their implications for workers and public policy, drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments. Use of flexible staffing arrangements -- including...

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Short-Term Employment Persistence for Welfare Recipients: The "Effects" of Wages, Industry, Occupation and Firm

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997

Using data from 13 years (1983-95) of the March Current Population Survey, this study examines how the types of jobs …. The estimates suggest that the Using data from 13 years (1983-95) of the March Current Population Survey, this study …

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Solving the Many Problems with Inner City Jobs

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000

Inner-city business development is often proposed as a solution to inner-city poverty. However, research evidence suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of the inner city poor. Public subsidies for inner city...

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What Should the Federal Government Be Doing About Urban Economic Development?

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and local governments; (2) expand the federal role in...

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Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

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The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Diffrerent Demographic Groups and the Poor

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

really diminished. Because of the limited evidence in one time series of national data, some researchers have begun looking … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … paper is to use panel data on individuals (specifically, data from the Panel Survey on Income Dynamics) to examine how local …

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Employer Training Needs in Hawaii

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992

The Survey of Employer Training Needs in Hawaii was undertaken to gather information and data on the needs and …

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Temporary Help Service Firms' Use of Employer Tax Credits: Implications for Disadvantaged Workers' Labor Market Outcomes

Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

/WtW subsidies using administrative and survey data. Results indicate that WOTC/WtW-certified THS workers have higher earnings than …

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Culture, Human Capital, and the Earnings of West Indian Blacks

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

national average. Barry Chiswick [1980, chapter 7] also used 1970 Census data, but focused on comparisons among closely … white. The data required for these comparisons come from the 1980 Census of Population, in which native-born respondents …

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Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses

Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

The problem of rising health care costs and the related increased dependency on health insurance coverage has moved to the forefront of the U.S. policy agenda in recent years and was a fundamental component of President Clinton's 1992 campaign platform. However, the President's 1994 health care...

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