-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

-skilled workers. …

We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in … circumstances under which these workers are likely to be adversely affected, minimally affected, or even benefitted by such …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

This paper addresses the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers. Most studies … assume that there is a simple mechanical increase in the wage for workers earning a wage between the old and the new minimum … wage, with some studies allowing for spillovers to workers with wages just above this range. Rather than assume that the …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find …

why employers learn more quickly about college graduates’ productivity than less educated workers’. …