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  • The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David A. Wise

    The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation

    Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David A. Wise
    1989

    Kotlikoff and Wise document the continued backloading of pension benefits and the extent of retirement incentives by examining pension accrual in over 1,500 companies with defined benefit plans. They also perform a detailed analysis on the retirement plan of a "Fortune 500" company.

  • Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea? by Duane E. Leigh

    Assisting Displaced Workers: Do the States Have a Better Idea?

    Duane E. Leigh
    1989

    This work provides a comprehensive assessment of state initiatives designed to deal with worker displacement. Leigh considers quantitative and qualitative studies of state programs, evaluations of state- and federally-funded demonstration projects and pilot programs, and studies of the design and operation of foreign government programs.

  • From One Job to the Next: Worker Adjustment in a Changing Labor Market by Adam Seitchik and Jeffrey Zornitsky

    From One Job to the Next: Worker Adjustment in a Changing Labor Market

    Adam Seitchik and Jeffrey Zornitsky
    1989

    The authors discuss how the structure of job opportunities has changed over the last two decades; specifically the transfer of jobs from manufacturing to service industries. They then link these changes to issues of worker displacement policy and worker mobility.

  • The State of Economic Science: Views of Six Nobel Laureates by Werner Sichel, Editor

    The State of Economic Science: Views of Six Nobel Laureates

    Werner Sichel, Editor
    1989

    Six distinguished Nobel Laureates offer their views on the current state of economic science in a thought-provoking yet straightforward set of essays.

  • World Food and Agriculture: Economic Problems and Issues by Sisay Asefa, Editor

    World Food and Agriculture: Economic Problems and Issues

    Sisay Asefa, Editor
    1988

    Six esteemed agricultural economists confront a variety of issues ranging from the role of technical change in agricultural development to the persistent problem of hunger in Africa.

  • International Differences in the Labor Market Performance of Immigrants by George J. Borjas

    International Differences in the Labor Market Performance of Immigrants

    George J. Borjas
    1988

    The author provides substantive insights into the self-selection process that determines the composition of the pool of migrants. He also illustrates the importance of immigration policy in determining both the national origin and skill composition of migrant flow reaching a country of destination.

  • Illegal Aliens: Their Employment and Employers by Barry R. Chiswick

    Illegal Aliens: Their Employment and Employers

    Barry R. Chiswick
    1988

    This study develops and tests hypotheses about the characteristics of the employment of illegal aliens, including wages, investments in job training, job mobility, and workplace and employer characteristics.

  • Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and George Jakubson

    Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation

    Ronald G. Ehrenberg and George Jakubson
    1988

    After summarizing the theoretical arguments for and against plant closing legislation, the authors present results of empirical analyses, based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Displaced Workers and other data sources, that show that having advance notice appears to reduce the probability that a displaced worker will suffer any spell of unemployment.

  • The Economics of Tax Reform by Bassam Harik, Editor

    The Economics of Tax Reform

    Bassam Harik, Editor
    1988

    The contributors discuss the issuess of taxation and tax reform from diverse perspectives and show that tax reform is an ongoing process that doesn't end with the signing of a specific piece of legislation.

  • Job-Saving Strategies: Worker Buyouts and QWL by Arthur Hochner, Cherlyn S. Granrose, Judith Goode, Eileen Appelbaum, and Elaine Simon

    Job-Saving Strategies: Worker Buyouts and QWL

    Arthur Hochner, Cherlyn S. Granrose, Judith Goode, Eileen Appelbaum, and Elaine Simon
    1988

    This book probes the effectiveness of two job-saving strategies, worker buyouts and QWL (quality of worklife) programs, used to try to reverse the shutdown of a chain of supermarkets in Philadelphia.

  • Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: The Regional Issues by Marie Howland

    Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: The Regional Issues

    Marie Howland
    1988

    Howland examines the relationship between regional employment shifts and plant closures and describes the implications of that relationship for displaced worker study. Her findings support an argument against industrial policy as a means of slowing the pace of worker dislocation as well as against concession in wages, utility bills, and taxes as strategies for retaining local jobs. Howland also presents several policy options for both national policy makers and local economic development officials, and argues for increased federal support for local takeovers of closing branch plants and subsidiaries and for financial and adjustment assistance for displaced workers.

  • A Second Chance: Training for Jobs by Sar A. Levitan and Frank Gallo

    A Second Chance: Training for Jobs

    Sar A. Levitan and Frank Gallo
    1988

    Levitan and Gallo make use of their considerable experience and prior research to provide a critical assessment of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The authors evaluate state governments' role in guiding and monitoring the program, and suggest that the success rates are actually lower than the reported official figures. Anyone interested in the JTPA or other job training program will benefit from the assessments provided by the authors in this book.

  • The Conflict Between Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Theories: The Case of the U.S. Labor Market by Richard E. Quandt and Harvey S. Rosen

    The Conflict Between Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Theories: The Case of the U.S. Labor Market

    Richard E. Quandt and Harvey S. Rosen
    1988

    A fundamental controversy in labor economics is whether unemployment is better viewed as an equilibrium or disequilibrium phenomenon. The authors contend that answers to policy problems related to unemployment will depend on which of the two characterizations of the labor market is accepted. They note the effects of inflation, taxes, and unionization on unemployment and describe those factors' effects on the equilibrium/disequilibrium question by presenting both equilibrium and disequilibrium models of the U.S. labor market.

  • The Tragedy of Black Lung: Federal Compensation for Occupational Disease by Peter S. Barth

    The Tragedy of Black Lung: Federal Compensation for Occupational Disease

    Peter S. Barth
    1987

    This study details the development of the federal government's Black Lung program and evaluates its policy components.

  • Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation by Monroe Berkowitz and John F. Burton

    Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation

    Monroe Berkowitz and John F. Burton
    1987

    Berkowitz and Burton provide a detailed examination of the adequacy and equity of permanent partial disability benefits, and the efficiency of the system delivering those benefits. A ten-state study is presented that examines states' criteria for awarding scheduled and nonscheduled benefits. Three of those states are then used for a wage-loss study illustrating the relationship among workers' disability ratings, the workers' WC benefits, and losses of earnings caused by work-related injuries.

  • An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System by Paul L. Burgess and Jerry L. Kingston

    An Incentives Approach to Improving the Unemployment Compensation System

    Paul L. Burgess and Jerry L. Kingston
    1987

    Overpayments may account for up to 15 percent of all payments made under the unemployment compensation system. Burgess and Kingston propose that this overpayment serves as a clue to the more serious problems residing in the system. The authors focus on the lack of incentives (or the existence of disincentives) for improvement within the UC program structure for all participants - claimants, employers, and state UC agencies. Other issues they explore include the excessive complexity of the system and the difficulty of effectively monitoring claimant compliance with eligibility criteria.

  • Worker Dislocation: Case Studies of Causes and Cures by Robert F. Cook, Editor

    Worker Dislocation: Case Studies of Causes and Cures

    Robert F. Cook, Editor
    1987

    This book describes various projects to assist dislocated workers under Title III of the JTPA, and offers lessons on what has and hasn't worked.

  • Saving Plants and Jobs: Union-Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing by Paul F. Gerhart

    Saving Plants and Jobs: Union-Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing

    Paul F. Gerhart
    1987

    Gerhart uses a case study approach to examine why plants become economically inviable as well as how to prevent this from happening prematurely.

  • Tax Base Sharing: Simulations for Kalamazoo County by Timothy L. Hunt

    Tax Base Sharing: Simulations for Kalamazoo County

    Timothy L. Hunt
    1987

    Uses historical data to simulate the effects of tax base sharing.

  • The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 1945-1985: Seeking Paths to Fuller Employment by Saul J. Blaustein

    The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 1945-1985: Seeking Paths to Fuller Employment

    Saul J. Blaustein
    1986

  • Current Issues in Workers' Compensation by James Robert Chelius

    Current Issues in Workers' Compensation

    James Robert Chelius
    1986

    This book reports on and offers analysis of a wide ranges of issues related to workers' compensation including administration, state reforms, costs, and reforms.

  • Nonmonetary Eligibility in State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law and Practice by Walter Corson, Alan M. Hershey, and Stuart Kerachsky

    Nonmonetary Eligibility in State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law and Practice

    Walter Corson, Alan M. Hershey, and Stuart Kerachsky
    1986

    Consists of an econometric analysis of UI denial rates and factors that influence these rates, and in-depth studies of six state UI systems that explore factors that are typically "unobservable" in most statistical analyses.

  • Clerical Employment and Technological Change by H. Allan Hunt and Timothy L. Hunt

    Clerical Employment and Technological Change

    H. Allan Hunt and Timothy L. Hunt
    1986

    Reviews 30 years of evidence of technological change on clerical employment, and projects no decline in the demand for these jobs as a result of new technologies.

  • Essays on Legal and Illegal Immigration by Susan Pozo

    Essays on Legal and Illegal Immigration

    Susan Pozo
    1986

    Immigration is an issue drawing increased attention among policymakers and citizens. These essays provide an economic perspective to the effects of immigration on the labor markets in the United States.

  • The Funding Crisis in State Unemployment Insurance by Wayne Vroman

    The Funding Crisis in State Unemployment Insurance

    Wayne Vroman
    1986

    Documents UI funding problems and attempts by states to solve them.

 

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