We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of...

This comprehensive and well-written book discusses what has happened in our economy during the past 100 years to shape today's labor market, and how that past will shape the labor market of the future. The book discusses trends through the year 2000, what careers will expand and decline (and how...

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...