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  • Labor Exchange Policy in the United States by David E. Balducchi, Editor; Randall W. Eberts, Editor; and Christopher J. O'Leary, Editor

    Labor Exchange Policy in the United States

    David E. Balducchi, Editor; Randall W. Eberts, Editor; and Christopher J. O'Leary, Editor
    2004

    This book describes the evolution of labor exchange policy in the United States, summarizes the major findings about the effectiveness of labor exchange services, and offers reflections on the future for labor exchange policy. In addition, the contributors provide an international perspective on job brokerage functions and a discussion on the appropriate role for governments in helping job seekers and employers make the proper job match.

  • Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era by Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest

    Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era

    Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest
    2004

    Acs and Loprest pull together information from a host of leaver studies to provide a bottom line assessment of what was learned. They compare welfare leaver outcomes across geographic areas and the nation as a whole. This effort allows them to paint a comprehensive picture of the employment, income, and hardships families experience after leaving welfare.

  • Workplace Justice Without Unions by Hoyt N. Wheeler, Brian S. Klaas, and Douglas M. Mahony

    Workplace Justice Without Unions

    Hoyt N. Wheeler, Brian S. Klaas, and Douglas M. Mahony
    2004

    Wheeler, Klaas, and Mahony provide a thorough analysis of organizational justice systems by exploring nonunion systems of workplace justice and comparing them with the union system, American courts, and systems in 11 other countries.

  • Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies by Richard N. Block, Editor

    Bargaining for Competitiveness: Law, Research, and Case Studies

    Richard N. Block, Editor
    2003

    This book offers an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining, firm competitiveness, and employment protections and creation in the United States. The contributors provide an overview of the legal framework and the economic and industrial relations research on collective bargaining, competitiveness, and employment, then follow with four case studies that provide insights into the process of collective bargaining and its current status in the evolving U.S. labor-management system.

  • Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit by Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman

    Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit

    Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman
    2003

    Hoffman and Seidman offer a thorough assessment of the EITC in which they analyze, evaluate, summarize, and critique the state of the program. They find that, overall, the EITC works well, and that it has earned its political popularity. Yet they also uncover several problem areas that they address with specific recommendations based on their analysis.

  • Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization by Robert H. Haveman, Andrew Bershadker, and Jonathan A. Schwabish

    Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization

    Robert H. Haveman, Andrew Bershadker, and Jonathan A. Schwabish
    2003

    This study enhances the existing measures of the nation’s human capital and the extent to which that capital is utilized. Haveman, Bershadker, and Schwabish develop an indicator of the value of the human capital stock held by the nation’s working-age population called Earnings Capacity (EC), and use it to study the time trends in aggregate human capital in the United States and human capital per worker. They also use EC to evaluate utilization of the nation’s human capital stock, thereby demonstrating the usefulness of the EC indicator in measuring the size and strength of the U.S. economy.

  • Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies by Ethan B. Kapstein and Branko Milanovic

    Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies

    Ethan B. Kapstein and Branko Milanovic
    2003

    The authors study the connection between economic reform and social policy, and why such reforms failed to produce the tide needed to lift all boats in the transition economies of eastern and central Europe and of Asia.

  • Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition by Michael W. Klein, Scott Schuh, and Robert K. Triest

    Job Creation, Job Destruction, and International Competition

    Michael W. Klein, Scott Schuh, and Robert K. Triest
    2003

    The authors present a picture of how the effects of international trade on employment in U.S. manufacturing industries vary widely. They explore the labor-market dynamics and adjustment costs associated with international factors, particularly the way fluctuations in exchange rates, overseas economic activity, and the altering of trade restrictions contribute to churning-the simultaneous job creation among some firms and job destruction among others.

  • Labor Standards in the United States and Canada by Richard N. Block, Ronald O. Clarke, and Karen Roberts

    Labor Standards in the United States and Canada

    Richard N. Block, Ronald O. Clarke, and Karen Roberts
    2003

    Block, Roberts, and Clarke offer a method for comparing ten labor standards across political jurisdictions. They then apply this method to the United States and Canada, an exercise that allows them to settle the long-running dispute over whether or not Canada has higher standards than the U.S., and if so, to what degree.

  • Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences by Susan N. Houseman, Editor and Machiko Osawa, Editor

    Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences

    Susan N. Houseman, Editor and Machiko Osawa, Editor
    2003

    This book reveals the considerable variation in the levels of growth in a broad set of nonstandard work arrangements while presenting a comprehensive view of how, as a result, the nature of the employment relationship is changing within and among countries. The international roster of economists, sociologists, and labor law experts who contributed draw on cross-country variations in economic conditions and institutional characteristics to explain why some arrangements have grown faster in some countries than in others and what this means for workers. By considering a broad array of nonstandard work arrangements in a number of economies, the authors provide a richer understanding than if the focus had been limited to a single country of one or a short-list of employment arrangements.

  • The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle by David C. Stapleton, Editor and Richard V. Burkhauser, Editor

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

    David C. Stapleton, Editor and Richard V. Burkhauser, Editor
    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.

  • The Economics of Risk by Donald J. Meyer

    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.

  • The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities: The ADA and Beyond by Julie L. Hotchkiss

    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.

  • Training That Works: Lessons from California's Employment Training Panel Program by Richard W. Moore, Daniel R. Blake, G. Michael Phillips, and Daniel McConaughy

    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.

  • Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers by Amanda L. Ahlstrand, Laurie J. Bassi, and Daniel P. McMurrer

    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.

  • Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry by David I. Levine, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, and Cristian Echeverria

    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.

  • How New Is the "New Employment Contract"?: Evidence from North American Pay Practices by David I. Levine, Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica L. Groshen, and K. C. O'Shaughnessy

    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.

  • Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss? by Lori G. Kletzer

    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.

  • Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement by Peter Joseph Kuhn, Editor

    Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement

    Peter Joseph Kuhn, Editor
    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?

  • Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform by Bruce A. Weber, Editor; Greg J. Duncan, Editor; and Leslie A. Whitener, Editor

    Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform

    Bruce A. Weber, Editor; Greg J. Duncan, Editor; and Leslie A. Whitener, Editor
    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.

  • State Enterprise Zone Programs: Have They Worked? by Alan H. Peters and Peter S. Fisher

    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.

  • Targeting Employment Services by Randall W. Eberts, Editor; Christopher J. O'Leary, Editor; and Stephen A. Wandner, Editor

    Targeting Employment Services

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

  • The Economics of Work and Family by Jean Kimmel, Editor and Emily P. Hoffman, Editor

    The Economics of Work and Family

    Jean Kimmel, Editor and Emily P. Hoffman, Editor
    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.

  • Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce by Peter Budetti, Editor; Richard V. Burkhauser, Editor; Janice M. Gregory, Editor; and H. Allan Hunt, Editor

    Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce

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

  • Labor, Business, and Change in Germany and the United States by Kirsten S. Wever

    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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