Most studies of the impact of unions use individual rather than establishment level data. In this paper, we combine information on union organizing activity from the U.S. National Labor Relations Board Representation Case files with information on a wide range of economic variables form the U.S....

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment spells for AFDC recipients. Although an experimental design eliminates the need to construct a comparison group for this analysis, simple comparisons between the average...

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the first ten years experience in the united States...