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  • Confronting Policy Challenges of the Great Recession: Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy
  • Disasters in the United States : Frequency, Costs, and Compensation
  • Extending Work Life: Can Employers Adapt When Employees Want to Delay Retirement?
  • How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?: Employee Ownership, Employment Stability, and Firm Survival in the United States: 1999-2011
  • Lessons Learned from Public Workforce Program Experiments
  • The STEM Dilemma: Skills that Matter to Regions
  • Workers' Compensation: Analysis for Its Second Century
  • Evolving Approaches to the Economics of Public Policy: Views of Award-Winning Economists
  • Surviving Job Loss: Paper Makers in Maine and Minnesota
  • Sustaining Social Security in an Era of Population Aging
  • The Economics of Health
  • Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
  • Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy
  • Promise Nation: Transforming Communities through Place-Based Scholarships
  • Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt
  • The Political Economy of Good Governance
  • From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education
  • Privatizing Railroad Retirement
  • Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives
  • The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record
  • The Road through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity
  • What Does the Minimum Wage Do?
  • Occupational Labor Shortages : Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures
  • Stages of Occupational Regulation: Analysis of Case Studies
  • Tackling Unemployment: The Legislative Dynamics of the Employment Act of 1946
  • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs
  • Dragon versus Eagle: The Chinese Economy and U.S.-China Relations
  • Education Reform and the Limits of Policy: Lessons from Michigan
  • Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms
  • Reconnecting to Work: Policies to Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment and Its Consequences
  • The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-Based Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act
  • Advances in Economic Forecasting
  • Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives
  • Investing in Kids: Early Childhood Programs and Local Economic Development
  • Longevity Policy: Facing Up to Longevity Issues Affecting Social Security, Pensions, and Older Workers
  • The Performance of Performance Standards
  • The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was it Beneficial for Workers?
  • The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings
  • What Works in Work-First Welfare: Designing and Managing Employment Programs in New York City
  • Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century
  • Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
  • Mothers' Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform
  • Pension Policy: The Search for Better Solutions
  • Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy
  • The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters
  • The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  • Against the Tide: Household Structure, Opportunities, and Outcomes among White and Minority Youth
  • Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement
  • Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers: Bridging Research and Practice
  • Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?: Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States
  • The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom
  • The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo
  • A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy
  • How Do We Spend Our Time?: Evidence from the American Time Use Study
  • Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States
  • Older and Out of Work: Jobs and Social Insurance for a Changing Economy
  • Who Really Made Your Car?: Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry
  • Working After Welfare: How Women Balance Jobs and Family in the Wake of Welfare Reform
  • Do Community Colleges Respond to Local Needs?: Evidence from California
  • Immigrants and Their International Money Flows
  • Reining in the Competition for Capital
  • Individual Accounts for Social Security Reform: International Perspectives on the U.S. Debate
  • Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States
  • Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?
  • Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System
  • The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?
  • The Shadow Workforce: Perspectives on Contingent Work in the United States, Japan, and Europe
  • The Working Life: The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs
  • Job Training That Gets Results: Ten Principles of Effective Employment Programs
  • Safety Practices, Firm Culture, and Workplace Injuries
  • The Economics of Sustainable Development
  • Unemployment Compensation Throughout the World: A Comparative Analysis
  • Welfare and Work: Experiences in Six Cities
  • Workplace Injuries and Diseases: Prevention and Compensation - Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason
  • Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers' Compensation Programs: A Report of the Study Panel on Benefit Adequacy of the Workers' Compensation Steering Committee, National Academy of Social Insurance
  • By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold On to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers
  • Communities and Workforce Development
  • Does "Trickle Down" Work?: Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets
  • International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
  • Job Training Policy in the United States
  • Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-Site Child Care Centers
  • Labor Exchange Policy in the United States
  • Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era
  • Workplace Justice Without Unions
  • Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies
  • Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit
  • Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization
  • Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies
  • Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition
  • Labor Standards in the United States and Canada
  • Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences
  • The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle
  • The Economics of Risk
  • The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities: The ADA and Beyond
  • Training That Works: Lessons from California's Employment Training Panel Program
  • Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers
  • Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry
  • How New Is the "New Employment Contract"?: Evidence from North American Pay Practices
  • Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?
 
  • Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States and Cities by Peter S. Fisher and Alan H. Peters

    Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States and Cities

    Peter S. Fisher and Alan H. Peters
    1998

    This book is the first significant attempt to quantify the development efforts made by state and local governments. The authors' extensive research focuses on tax and incentive policies across the 24 most industrialized states in the United States and a sample of 112 cities from within those states.

  • Pensions and Productivity by Stuart Dorsey, Christopher Mark. Cornwell, and David A. Macpherson

    Pensions and Productivity

    Stuart Dorsey, Christopher Mark. Cornwell, and David A. Macpherson
    1998

    Employers typically view their investment in pension plans as a means of providing retirement income for their workers. Economists, on the other hand, view pension programs as a way to increase workplace productivity. Dorsey, Cornwell and Macpherson explore the theoretical and empirical basis for this perspective and, in the process, offer a complete and up-to-date discussion on the productivity theory of pensions.

  • The Economics of the Great Depression by Mark Wheeler

    The Economics of the Great Depression

    Mark Wheeler
    1998

    This book contributes to our understanding of the Great Depression's immediate and long-term impacts on the American economy. Editor Mark Wheeler has gathered six scholars from a range of subdisciplines within economics who, together, offer a diverse look at the Depression's effects on the nation's GDP, workers and labor markets, and monetary policy.

  • Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing by Wayne Vroman

    Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing

    Wayne Vroman
    1998

    Vroman warns that states are more at risk for insolvency in the late 1990s than they were in 1990 and that a repetition of widespread and large-scale borrowing of the past is a distinct possibility. He bases this statement on an empirical study that examines historical levels of states' UI trust fund balances between recessions, and the specific methods used to finance trust fund blanaces. These methods include traditional means of financing, tax-base indexing, state reserve funds, and "flexible" financing such as solvency taxes and legislative response mechanisms. In addition, he addresses the tradeoffs of financing UI debt by either borrowing from the U.S. Treasury or state bond issues.

  • Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs by David M. O'Neill and June O'Neill

    Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs

    David M. O'Neill and June O'Neill
    1997

    The authors have compiled and analyzed data that identifies historical trends in the AFDC caseload, the personal characteristics of recipients, and broad patterns of welfare participation. They also offer an evaluative survey on the effectiveness of past education, training and workfare programs in reducing the AFDC caseload.

  • On-the-Job Training by John M. Barron, Mark C. Berger, and Dan A. Black

    On-the-Job Training

    John M. Barron, Mark C. Berger, and Dan A. Black
    1997

    Firms in the U.S. invest billions of dollars annually in workforce training. Growing evidence of the effects of this training on worker productivity, wages, hiring and turnover has led researchers to gradually incorporate the role of training into their analyses. Barron, Berger and Black advance this line of research by offering new evidence on the amount of training provided to workers during the first three months on the job, and the characteristics of those workers who received that training.

  • Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality by Dale Ballou and Michael John Podgursky

    Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality

    Dale Ballou and Michael John Podgursky
    1997

    Ballou and Podgursky offer solid economic analysis on issues surrounding the debate over whether increasing salaries for teachers leads to a more qualified teaching workforce. The authors find little evidence to support the link between increased salaries and teacher quality, then address two questions: (1) What went wrong? and (2) Which reforms are likely to meet with increased success?

  • Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues by Christopher J. O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner

    Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues

    Christopher J. O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner
    1997

    This book presents 15 original essays that reflect the state of knowledge on policy issues critical to the performance and success of the nation's UI system. The essays are based on program data, enabling the authors to provide analyses on and recommendations for issues at the forefront of the UI policy debate. Topics include coverage, eligibility, adequacy and duration of benefits, labor market attachment, benefit financing, fraud and abuse, the intersection of UI with other income maintenance programs, federal-state relations (including devolution), and more.

  • Disability, Work and Cash Benefits by Jerry L. Mashaw, Virginia P. Reno, Richard V. Burkhauser, and Monroe Berkowitz

    Disability, Work and Cash Benefits

    Jerry L. Mashaw, Virginia P. Reno, Richard V. Burkhauser, and Monroe Berkowitz
    1996

    This book examines the economic consequences of work disabilities, and public and private interventions that might enable disabled individuals to enter the work force for the first time, remain at work, or return to work. Three groups of papers are presented. The first group examines ways that labor market changes, policy interventions and individual choices shape the work force. The next analyzes both public and private return to work policies for the work disabled and for those with a severely disabling condition. The final group focuses on the specific needs of the disabled that affect their work force participation, including access to health care, personal assistance and assistive technologies.

  • Exploring the Underground Economy: Studies of Illegal and Unreported Activity by Susan Pozo

    Exploring the Underground Economy: Studies of Illegal and Unreported Activity

    Susan Pozo
    1996

    Individually, the six contributors to this volume each provides a detailed examination of specific segments of the underground economy including its participants, attempts at measurement, and policy responses. Taken together, the essays offer a thorough overview that emphasizes the importance and magnitude of one of the largest economies in the world.

  • Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s: Hearings of the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, 1993-94 by Richard N. Block, John Beck, and Daniel H. Kruger

    Labor Law, Industrial Relations and Employee Choice: The State of the Workplace in the 1990s: Hearings of the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, 1993-94

    Richard N. Block, John Beck, and Daniel H. Kruger
    1996

    Block, Beck and Kruger present detailed examples from the testimony given during the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations (commonly called the Dunlop Commission) national and regional hearings. The Commission, by hearing from a wide range of stakeholders, sought to define the state of industrial relations and labor law in the U.S. during the 1990s. Because the Commission's final reports were concerned with policy matters, they only briefly summarized the testimony. This volume draws deeply from the testimony, citing many examples that clearly illustrate the wide variety of relationships between workers and management today. In addition, it shows how the interpretation of labor law has changed over the decades.

  • Of Heart and Mind: Social Policy Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan by Garth L. Mangum and Stephen L. Mangum

    Of Heart and Mind: Social Policy Essays in Honor of Sar A. Levitan

    Garth L. Mangum and Stephen L. Mangum
    1996

    The essays in this volume, authored by close friends, associates and students of Sar Levitan, pay tribute to the enduring mark he left on the field of social policy. The book is loosely organized around the method of analysis taught and practiced by Levitan: identifying problems through the examination of facts, developing a thorough understanding of institutions, assessing institutional policies, and evaluating policy options.

  • Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution by Jon Neill

    Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution

    Jon Neill
    1996

    Despite the nation's significant and prolonged economic growth during the 1990s, the portion of aggregate income going to the poorest 20 percent of the population declined, while that of the richest 20 percent grew. The contributors to this volume examine the extent and reasons behind this distribution.

  • Workdays, Workhours and Work Schedules: Evidence for the United States and Germany by Daniel S. Hamermesh

    Workdays, Workhours and Work Schedules: Evidence for the United States and Germany

    Daniel S. Hamermesh
    1996

    Hamermesh presents the first comprehensive evidence explaining how days of work, hours of work, and daily schedules are determined in the U.S. and Germany. Using an instantaneous approach to looking at unique data sets for each country, Hamermesh provides comparative analyses on factors influencing both employees' and employers' work schedules. This technique allows him to offer a new "snapshot" perspective on work scheduling that clarifies the role of fixed costs of getting to work and of adding workdays to plant schedules. He also increases our understanding of the relation between work time and the determination of employment, and presents findings with important implications for several current hot-button workplace issues.

  • Assisting Workers Displaced by Structural Change: An International Perspective by Duane E. Leigh

    Assisting Workers Displaced by Structural Change: An International Perspective

    Duane E. Leigh
    1995

    Leigh begins by providing a summary of the evolution of labor market programs in seven industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. He points out that a number of these nations are dealing with long-term unemployment by linking unemployment insurance benefits to participation in labor market programs, and that this is a requirement U.S. policy makers should examine closely. Leigh also performs informal cross-country evaluations of these countries' programs,focusing on policies he feels merit attention. A three-level active labor market program is then proposed for the U.S.

  • Causes of Litigation in Workers' Compensation Programs by Evangelos Mariou Falaris, Charles R. Link, and Michael E. Staten

    Causes of Litigation in Workers' Compensation Programs

    Evangelos Mariou Falaris, Charles R. Link, and Michael E. Staten
    1995

    By applying econometric analyses to case data from two states, Falaris, Link and Staten identify the economic incentives influencing the probability of litigation in workers' compensation cases, and the probability that a contested case is pursued to verdict.

  • Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B. McKersie, and Richard E. Walton

    Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations

    Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B. McKersie, and Richard E. Walton
    1995

    The authors identify and analyze the strategies for change and techniques most often used in today's labor negotiations. Nearly gone, they say, is the traditional "arms length" approach used by negotiators in the past. Instead, modern collective bargaining is characterized mainly by divergent strategies the authors characterize as either "forcing" (highly contentious) or "fostering" (highly cooperative). A dozen detailed case studies from a variety of industries are presented that show when, why and how these strategies are used, by whom, and to what result. These cases clearly demonstrate the use of both forcing and fostering strategies, as well as their combined and sequential uses. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, McKersie and Walton also provide analyses which clarify the reasons for the success or failure of approaches used in each case. And there is a highly useful discussion of eight relevant environmental factors that influence how negotiated changes unfold.

  • Pension Incentives and Job Mobility by Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

    Pension Incentives and Job Mobility

    Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
    1995

    Using models developed for this study which incorporate an array of behaviors generally omitted from conventional models relating backloading to turnover, Gustman and Steinmeier find that backloading plays only a slight role in explaining mobility differences associated with pension coverage. They propose that higher wages often paid at pension-covered jobs play a greater role in reducing mobility than do pensions.

  • Permanent Job Loss and the U.S. System of Financing Unemployment Insurance by Frank P.R. Brechling and Louise Laurence

    Permanent Job Loss and the U.S. System of Financing Unemployment Insurance

    Frank P.R. Brechling and Louise Laurence
    1995

    The authors reexamine the experience rating provisions in the U.S. UI system and look at its effects on both temporary layoffs and long-term permanent layoffs. For temporary layoffs, they propose a higher degree of experience rating through a restructuring of the tax code while eliminating administrative time lags between the payment of benefits and the resulting changes in taxes. Brechling and Laurence also propose experience rating as an effective means of internalizing the costs of the growing number of permanent layoffs, making the case that payroll taxes are not the ideal means of implementing experience rating in this situation. In addition, they compare how the reserve and benefit ratio methods of experience rating internalize the costs of permanent layoffs.

  • Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis by John A. Turner and Noriyasu Watanabe

    Private Pension Policies in Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis

    John A. Turner and Noriyasu Watanabe
    1995

    In this comprehensive review of private pension systems in effect world-wide, Turner and Watanabe discuss the fundamental issues facing nations as they adopt and expand private pension systems. Specific policies in effect in several private pension systems are analyzed including those in nations dominating world pension assets (Japan, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.), as is the country whose system is widely regarded as the model for developing nations, Chile. Turner and Watanabe also provide a compendium on the worldwide trends influencing pension systems and their implications for pension policy.

  • Program Applicants as a Comparison Group in Evaluating Training Programs: Theory and a Test by Stephen H. Bell, Larry L. Orr, John D. Blomquist, and Glen George Cain

    Program Applicants as a Comparison Group in Evaluating Training Programs: Theory and a Test

    Stephen H. Bell, Larry L. Orr, John D. Blomquist, and Glen George Cain
    1995

    The authors begin with a thorough assessment of the many nonexperimental employment and training program evaluation techniques based on non-random comparison groups. These techniques typically use econometric methods to estimate the effects of employment and training programs by using comparison groups from non-program "external" sources. Then, recognizing the inherent drawbacks in these methods, Bell, Orr, Blomquist and Cain respond by reintroducing an evaluation method first implemented in the 1960s, the use of "internal" comparison groups consisting of nonparticipating program applicants. These groups include withdrawals, screen-outs and no-shows of the programs being evaluated in order to solve the selection bias problem. By applying to the program, say the authors, nonparticipating applicants reveal themselves to have some of the same difficult-to-measure, personal characteristics that inspire participants to seek help in response to their current economic situation. The methodology of this technique is updated, then tested against the random experimental findings derived from a controlled job training experiment, the AFDC Homemaker-Home Health Aide Demonstrations. Encouraging results are presented along with useful suggestions for designers and implementers of all types of program evaluations.

  • Human Capital and Economic Development by Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang

    Human Capital and Economic Development

    Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang
    1994

    Six essays are presented that explore human capital and its relationship to issues such as demographics, population growth, families, workplace training and economic progress.

  • Classrooms in the Workplace: Workplace Literacy Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms by Kevin Hollenbeck

    Classrooms in the Workplace: Workplace Literacy Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms

    Kevin Hollenbeck
    1993

    Hollenbeck, using a combined qualitative/quantitative approach, estimates the linkage between workplace literacy programs and the reason for their existence - increased productivity requirements. He utilizes in-depth case studies as well as a large database to look at the costs and benefits of such programs, also the determining factors for why firms choose to implement literacy programs.

  • Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations by Stephen R. Sleigh

    Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations

    Stephen R. Sleigh
    1993

    This book's essays analyze innovative responses by unions, corporations and governments to job loss caused by economic restructuring, drawing on examples from Western Europe and the U.S.

  • Essays on the Economics of Education by Emily P. Hoffman

    Essays on the Economics of Education

    Emily P. Hoffman
    1993

    The contributors provide an economic perspective on a wide range of education-related issues related to K-12 and higher education.

 

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