labor in white papers
Human Capital, Market Imperfections, and Labor Reallocation in Transition
White Paper This paper investigates how human capital and factor market imperfections affect households' decisions on their labor use and reallocation in transition countries. A model is first developed, which explicitly accounts for heterogeneity in the... [03 Jul 2008]
International Trade and Core Labor Standards: A Survey of the Recent Literature
White Paper This paper reviews some recent literature that concerns the background, establishment and enforcement of international labor standards. Topics include the selection and justification of core labor standards, the economic events that have driven a... [03 Jul 2008]
Borland Delphi: An OASIS for the U.S. Department of Labor
White Paper Department of Labor administers four major disability compensation programs that provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and other benefits for certain workers who experience work-related injury or... [03 Jul 2008]
Farm Households' Wealth and Off-Farm Supply of Labor
White Paper The off-farm labor supply of a sample of Kansas farmers is evaluated. This paper focuses on the role of wealth in determining off-farm labor supply decisions. Results suggest a statistically significant influence of wealth on off-farm labor... [03 Jul 2008]
Child Labor, Education, and Children's Rights
White Paper This paper reviews the international legal framework relating to child labor and access to education and provides a statistical portrait of child labor and education participation. Various policy options are considered, including those which... [03 Jul 2008]
Top Management Challenges Facing the U.S. Department of Labor
White Paper Enhancing the integrity and solvency of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a challenge to DOL given the program's scope and vulnerabilities. The UI program paid over $41 billion in income maintenance benefits to workers during the first... [03 Jul 2008]
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis From 1915 to 1939
White Paper This paper analyzes a detailed set of laws, examining their effect on the entire distribution of education. It also looks at the factors that explain changes in the laws. Using individual data from the 1960 census, it also estimates the effect of... [03 Jul 2008]
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
White Paper Between 1990 and 1999, real spending on the earned income tax credit (EITC) increased to $31.9 billion from $9.6 billion (in 1999 dollars). It is by far the largest cash or near-cash antipoverty policy in the United States. [03 Jul 2008]
Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market: The Importance of Good Jobs
White Paper The need to improve the earnings of low-wage workers remains a challenge for current welfare policy. One traditional method of improving earnings has been to educate and train workers. This paper focuses on another method of improving earnings... [03 Jul 2008]
Modeling Labor Markets With Heterogeneous Agents and Matches
White Paper This paper presents a matching model with heterogeneous workers, firms, and worker-firm matches. The model generalizes the seminal Jovanovic (1979) model to the case of heterogeneous agents. The equilibrium wage is linear in a person-specific... [03 Jul 2008]
The Flukes of Hazard: OSHA Sets Its Sights On Design Professionals
White Paper Construction sites are filled with dangerous conditions, and the Secretary of Labor has issued specific construction industry standards for safety. A/E firms are not automatically exempt from OSHA liability and have been subjected to Department of... [03 Jul 2008]
Physical and Human Capital Deepening and New Trade Patterns in Japan
White Paper This paper investigates the deepening of the international division of labor and its effect on factor intensities in Japan, mainly focusing on the manufacturing sector. The paper analyzes the factor contents of trade and finds that Japan's factor... [03 Jul 2008]
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in France: Is France More Mobile Than the US?
White Paper The paper analyzes the elasticity of child's earnings in adulthood to father labor earnings, using five waves from the INSEE Formation-Qualification-Profession labor market surveys, covering the period 1964 to 1994. [03 Jul 2008]
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Transnational Corporations
White Paper Also increasingly recognized is the good or ill they can do for human rights, especially labor rights. And the primary international organization created to deal with labor affairs, namely the International Labor Organization, has not proven... [03 Jul 2008]
Readers Still Don't Like Carr's Outlook on IT
White Paper As far as his comments on the "Overinvestment in IT labor," the point is made that businesses can dramatically reduce IT infrastructure and labor costs by moving all corporate information assets and processing outside the company. [03 Jul 2008]
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