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  The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle

  David C. Stapleton and Richard V. Burkhauser
  2003

  The book begins with a documentation of the employment rate decline and ends by spelling out the implications of this decline for public policy. However, the bulk of the book provides a detailed examination of the various explanations for the puzzling decline in employment among the working-aged population with disabilities.

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  The Economics of Risk

  Donald J. Meyer
  2003

  This collection offers an economics-based overview of the various facets of risk. It contains six papers that examine a broad array of research relating to risk. Two papers examine risk management and its application to decision making as well as what researchers have learned over the past few decades in their theoretical investigations of risk. The remaining chapters examine how risk plays out in the particular markets in which it has a significant presence, including casino gambling enterprises, agricultural markets, auctions, and health insurance.

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  The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities: The ADA and Beyond

  Julie L. Hotchkiss
  2003

  This book focuses on the labor market provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It provides a comprehensive analysis of the current labor market experience of American workers with disabilities and an assessment of the impact the ADA has had on that experience.

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  Training That Works: Lessons from California's Employment Training Panel Program

  Richard W. Moore, Daniel R. Blake, G. Michael Phillips, and Daniel McConaughy
  2003

  The authors provide an in-depth analysis of an incumbent worker training program funded through California's unemployment insurance taxes.

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  Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers

  Amanda L. Ahlstrand, Laurie J. Bassi, and Daniel P. McMurrer
  2003

  This study reports on employers' practices and decision-making procedures with regards to workplace education and training for low-wage workers.

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  Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry

  David I. Levine, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, and Cristian Echeverria
  2002

  Employers and unions in several states during the 1990s were allowed to "carve out" their own workers' compensation systems. These innovative reforms gave the parties the right to collectively bargain their own systems outside the statutory systems. In addition, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems were implemented in order speed the legal process and reduce litigation costs. This book offers an evaluation of the first few years' experience with these organizational reforms in California.

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  How New Is the "New Employment Contract"?: Evidence from North American Pay Practices

  David I. Levine, Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica L. Groshen, and K. C. O'Shaughnessy
  2002

  This book explores this apparent change in the employment contract. Whereas earlier studies in this area focused on the rigidities in the quantity side of the employment relationship, e.g., changes in job tenure and rates of displacement, the authors focus on the price side of the contract - whether wage structures have become more flexible.

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  Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss?

  Lori G. Kletzer
  2002

  Kletzer adds to our understanding of the magnitude of the costs and benefits of free trade. She presents a focused examination of the relationship between changes in international trade, employment, and job displacement for a sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. The link between international trade and domestic jobs is also explored through studies of both net and gross employment job change.

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  Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement

  Peter Joseph Kuhn
  2002

  This volume presents a collaborative effort by 22 labor economists who examine worker displacement and the attempts to address it in 10 industrialized countries. Using large nationally-representative data sets and detailed policy analysis, the authors focus on two key questions related to worker displacement: 1) whether the experiences of displaced workers in the Untied States, and the patterns of experiences across workers, echo patterns seen in other developed countries, and 2) what can be learned, both from the similarities and from the differences across countries?

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  Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform

  Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener
  2002

  This volume presents a comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employment, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas.

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  State Enterprise Zone Programs: Have They Worked?

  Alan H. Peters and Peter S. Fisher
  2002

  Peters and Fisher evaluate 75 EZs located in 13 states to gain an understanding of the overall effectiveness of state enterprise zones. Faced with a paucity of data on EZs that could be used in standard economic analysis, the authors employ a hypothetical firm model in which they apply various EZ and non-EZ incentives to financial statements created for a set of "typical" firms. Observing the impacts of both types of incentives on firms' financial statements allow Peters and Fisher to predict the firms' resulting behavior. Between these findings and the data accumulated from actual EZs, they are able to offer insights on seven key policy issues.

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  Targeting Employment Services

  Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, and Stephen A. Wandner
  2002

  This book offers a thorough overview of the U.S. experience with targeting reemployment services and self-employment assistance to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust benefits. The authors also suggest other programs that might benefit from targeting, examine Canadian efforts at targeting reemployment services, and consider prospects for a new Frontline Decision Support System for one-stop centers.

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  The Economics of Work and Family

  Jean Kimmel and Emily P. Hoffman
  2002

  Using an economic perspective, the contributors confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family priorities), how parents balance time between work and family obligations, links between women's childbearing and their economic outcomes, the success of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the relationship between family structure and labor market outcomes. They also argue for specific policies designed to alleviate the stresses related to these issues.

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  Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce

  Peter Budetti, Richard V. Burkhauser, Janice M. Gregory, and H. Allan Hunt
  2001

  The chapters explore implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.

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  Labor, Business, and Change in Germany and the United States

  Kirsten S. Wever
  2001

  The chapters explore the proposition that the benefits of either the German coordinating institutions or the United States' more decentralized political economy each entail trade-offs that may be necessary but politically unpleasant. The authors also offer comparisons of sectoral and firm-level adjustment processes for change.

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  Pay at Risk: Compensation and Employment Risk in the United States and Canada

  John A. Turner
  2001

  The contributors to this book investigate the compensation and employment risks for U.S. and Canadian workers. They examine both wage and nonwage aspects of compensation, and whether workers in the U.S. or Canada face more job-related risks. They also seek to identify trends in risk bearing and whether they differ by country.

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  Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence from Three Field Experiments

  Philip K. Robins and Robert G. Spiegelman
  2001

  In this volume a select group of UI researchers describes the motivation for and the design, implementation, and impacts of UI bonus experiments administered in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington. They also describe the benefits and costs of the various experimental treatments for the government as a whole, the UI system in particular, claimants' earnings, and the overall net benefits to society.

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  The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms

  Huizhong Zhou
  2001

  A leading group of health care economists propose solutions to problems related to Medicare, managed care, health insurance, coverage for the uninsured, and the role of tax policy in health care.

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  Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements

  Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton
  2001

  Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several objectives of the workers' compensation (WC) program. They underscore the effects of deregulation and other changes in WC insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 states for 1975-1995. This allows them to address the interactive relationships among the four objectives of WC systems adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace injuries and diseases and how various public policies adopted by states or the federal government work to achieve them.

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  Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume II - Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work

  Susan Houseman and Alice Nakamura
  2001

  The chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under two topics: 1) working time over the life cycle, and 2) nonstandard work arrangements (e.g., temporary work, job sharing and moonlighting).

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  Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume I - Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment

  Ging Wong and W. G. Picot
  2001

  The chapters in this volume focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the United States, the implications of the changing distribution of hours worked for earnings inequality, and efforts to reduce unemployment through mandated hours reductions.

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  Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area

  John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer
  2000

  Anderson and Wassmer examine the use and effectiveness of local economic development incentives within a specific region, the Detroit metropolitan area. The Detroit area serves as a good example, they say, because of the area's 20-plus year track record of its communities offering the gamut of economic incentives aimed at redirecting economic activity and jobs. The evidence they uncover reveals factors that drive cities not just in this Southeast Michigan area, but nationwide to offer particular types of incentives that are more or less generous than those offered by their neighbors.

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  Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas

  Janice Fanning Madden
  2000

  In studying MSA data that link the characteristics of metropolitan economies to significant changes in income inequality, Madden is able to study changes in poverty rates, household income inequality, and wage inequality within 182 of the largest MSAs and to identify what she says are the three factors most likely to influence changes in income inequality in metropolitan areas.

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  Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States

  William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury
  2000

  Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of Canada and the U.S., these differences showcase the impacts of specific policies related to employee benefits on labor markets.

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  High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Education Reform in Urban School Districts?

  Nan L. Maxwell and Victor Rubin
  2000

  Maxwell and Rubin examine the capacity of career academies to address academic reform in terms of increased education and workplace skills. They accomplish this on two levels. First, they assess academies' development and implementation within an urban school district. Then they assess academies' potential to promote postsecondary success among academy students as compared to nonacademy students. Their findings will help educators and policymakers better understand the strengths and limitations of this method of reform.