Port truckers pick up and deliver containers at seaports. In the United States, since trucking deregulation in 1981, they have been working as independent contractors for mostly small trucking firms. These companies contract with shippers to deliver containers. They firms are small and usually...

Organized labor’s judicial, political, and public image is often associated with violence and anarchy. These descriptions are not spun out of whole cloth: violent uprisings that challenged the political and economic order were common in the early days of American labor unionism. But the...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....