Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors examine the earnings mobility of workers employed at the minimum wage. Results indicate that over 60% of workers who were earning the minimum wage in the mid-1980s were earning higher wages one year later;...

Several excellent cost-benefit analyses of programs under the Manpower Development and Training Act have been conducted and reported in the literature. However, little attention has thus far been directed to the method by which federal funds for these training programs are initially apportioned...

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...