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  • Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements by Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton

    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.

  • Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume II - Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work by Susan Houseman and Alice Nakamura

    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).

  • Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume I - Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment by Ging Wong and W. G. Picot

    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.

  • Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area by John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer

    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.

  • Changes in Income Inequality within U.S. Metropolitan Areas by Janice Fanning Madden

    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.

  • Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States by William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury

    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.

  • High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Education Reform in Urban School Districts? by Nan L. Maxwell and Victor Rubin

    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.

  • Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets by Thomas Hyclak

    Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets

    Thomas Hyclak
    2000

    Hyclak analyzes information not utilized in previous studies of wage inequality. Whereas researchers previously relied on data derived from the national labor market, Hyclak draws on data from the Area Wage Surveys (AWS), which allows him to focus on changes in the wage structure in a sample of 20 local labor markets for the period of 1974 to 1991. This source also allows him to examine changes in the structure of wages paid for some 40 different jobs found in four different occupational groups. In addition, Hyclak is able to concentrate on jobs and the skills required as the primary determinant of wages, an approach, he says, that complements the more traditional human capital wage model that emphasizes the personal characteristics of workers

  • The Economics of Medicare Reform by Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas Robert Saving

    The Economics of Medicare Reform

    Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas Robert Saving
    2000

    The authors propose a means for preserving Medicare as we know it. After detailing the reasons for Medicare's financial troubles, they present a cohort-based financing plan for Medicare that represents a fundamental departure from the generation transfer method currently used.

  • The Economics of Sports by William S. Kern

    The Economics of Sports

    William S. Kern
    2000

    The contributors to this book, all economists at the forefront of the movement to study the economics of sports, show how a host of contemporary economic issues come into play in today's world of sports. These issues include industrial organization, influences on labor markets, monopsony power, the behavior of cartels, local economic development policies, and price discrimination.

  • Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform by Sheldon Danziger

    Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform

    Sheldon Danziger
    1999

    The relationship between welfare caseloads and the economy is one of the key issues addressed in this book. Using the most current data available, a group of the nation's leading researchers examines the effects of welfare reform prior to and after enactment of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).

  • Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition by Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell

    Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition

    Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell
    1999

    The authors develop empirical models that enable them to examine the influence of two important determinants - source country characteristics and U.S. immigration policy - on the gender, age, and skills of immigrants coming to America.

  • Skill-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from a Firm-Level Survey by Donald S. Siegel

    Skill-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from a Firm-Level Survey

    Donald S. Siegel
    1999

    Siegel provides evidence that technology adoption is associated with downsizing, skill upgrading, greater employee empowerment, and a widening wage gap. Unlike previous studies that use industry-level data, Siegel collected firm-level data on technology usage and labor composition which enable him to link the magnitude of labor market outcomes for six classes of workers to the types of technologies implemented.

  • When Is Transition Over? by Annette N. Brown

    When Is Transition Over?

    Annette N. Brown
    1999

    The transition process in which a country moves from a planned economy to a market economy offers a unique opportunity for economists and policymakers to observe and understand the effects of major institutional, legal, and political changes on economic systems. But one feature of the process that has not been considered until now is when is the process over? When has a transition progressed far enough to ensure that a market system will survive and mature? Are there institutional, economic, and political standards that countries reach that measure the level of transition attained or, indeed, show that they have completed transition?

  • Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications by Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton

    Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications

    Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton
    1998

    This collection of original papers reveals why caseloads of the nation's two largest income entitlement programs for disability - Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - have soared.

  • 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.

 

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