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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Edited Transcript of Living Wage Conference Call, February 11, 2004

Bartik, Timothy J.; Neumark, David; Pollin, Robert; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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What Does the Minimum Wage Do?

Belman, Dale; Wolfson, Paul J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …

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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers

Jacobson, Louis S.; LaLonde, Robert J.; Sullivan, Daniel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992

The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers' job losses. To estimate the magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and...

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Earnings Inequality in Germany

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978...

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Culture, Human Capital, and the Earnings of West Indian Blacks

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Black immigrants from the British West Indies and their descendants have long held the interest of historians and sociologists because they provide a means of understanding the influence of differing cultural background on black economic progress. Numerous accounts from before World War II...

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Group Wage Curves

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000

Using panel data on U.S. MSAs, this paper estimates how a typical MSA's wages of different demographic groups, and … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high …

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …

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Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets

Hyclak, Thomas; Johnes, Geraint - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.

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