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Why Do Fewer Women Work in New York than Minneapolis?
Dan Black, Natalia Kolesnikova, and Lowell J. Taylor

The number of women working in the United States has grown steadily over the past 60 years. And more women have risen to the top, serving as CEOs, holding public offices, and even forcing “18 million cracks” in the nation’s highest glass ceiling during this year’s presidential campaign. Read more >>

Labor & Employment Research Areas
 

Labor economics, Unemployment insurance




Research in Brief
 

2009

Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants
Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon H. Hanson

A Note on “The Longitudinal Structure of Earnings Losses among Work-Limited Disabled Workers”
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Bruce D. Meyer, Alexandra C. Achen, and Wallace K. C. Mok

2008

The Case for Wage Insurance
Robert LaLonde

Depressive Symptoms in Traditional and Transitional Retirement
Michelle Pannor Silver

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review
Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly

Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach
Dan Black, Jose Galdo, and Jeffrey Smith

Job Loss at Mid-Life: Managers and Executives Face the ‘New Risk Economy’
Ariel Kalil, Ruby Mendenhall, Cassie Hart, and Laurel Spindel

Parental Employment Circumstances and Children’s Academic Progress
Ariel Kalil and Kathleen Ziol-Guest

Shortening the Tenure Clock: The Impact of Strengthened U.K. Job Security Legislation
Ioana Marinescu

Time Out of the Workforce and Women's Wages: A Critical Literature Review
Jessica Manvell

2007

Disability, Earnings, Income, and Consumption
Bruce Meyer and Wallace Mok

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State
Bruce Meyer and Wallace Mok

2006

The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women
Robert LaLonde and Rosa Cho

Job Stability, Job Mobility, and Child Behavior among Families Leaving Welfare
Ariel Kalil

Reciprocal Relations between Parental Employment Experiences and Child, Mother, and Father Health
Ariel Kalil

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax
Bruce Meyer and Patricia Anderson

2005

Curriculum Breadth or General Studies? A Reexamination of Alternative Approaches to General Education in English Secondary Schools
Ofer Malamud

Does Skill Beget Skill?
Robert LaLonde, Louis Jacobson, and Daniel Sullivan

The Effect of U.S. Immigration on Native-Born Self- Employment Rates and Earnings
Bruce Meyer and Robert Fairlie

The Effect of Vocational Training on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania
Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches

Eradicating Child Labor: Should International Law Remain the Vehicle for Implementing Policy Objectives?
Alexandra A. Forter

The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older, Displaced Workers: Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
Robert LaLonde, Louis Jacobson, and Daniel Sullivan

Maternal Working Conditions and Child Well-Being in Welfare-Leaving Families
Ariel Kalil, R. Dunifon, and A. Bajrachary

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Academic Performance
Ariel Kalil and K. Ziol-Guest

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax
Bruce Meyer and Patricia Anderson

Unemployment, the Division of Household Tasks, and Psychological Well-Being among Fathers and Mothers
Ariel Kalil and K. Ziol-Guest

Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models
Bruce Meyer and Bradley Heim

2004

Does Work Pay Psychologically As Well As Economically?
C. Cybele Raver

Labor Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters
Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning

Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
Robert LaLonde

Single Mothers’ Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being
Ariel Kalil and Kathleen Ziol-Guest

2003

The Effect of Arrests on the Earnings of Young Men: Evidence from the National Youth Survey
Mark Joseph

Labor Market Costs of Injury and Illness: Prevalence Matters
Willard Manning and Thomas DeLeire

The Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Policy
Cynthia Bansak and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

2002

Correlates of Employment Among Welfare Recipients: Do Psychological Characteristics and Attitudes Matter?
Ariel Kalil, Heidi Schweingruber, and Kristin Seefeldt

Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare-Reform Affect Children's Behavior?
Ariel Kalil, Rachel Dunifon, and Sandra Danziger

Downsizing
Gerard Pfann

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work
Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy

The Impact of a Criminal Background on Earnings
Mark Joseph

The Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan

Schooling and Training Participation by Displaced Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data
Louis Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan

Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
Boris Blumberg and Gerard Pfann

The Wage and Employment Effects of the American with Disabilities Act
Thomas DeLeire

2001

America's Changing Workforce
Robert LaLonde

The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work
Thomas DeLeire, Jay Bhattacharya, and Thomas MaCurdy

Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People with Disabilities: 1984-1993
Thomas DeLeire

The Employment of People with Disabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Thomas DeLeire

Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Gerard Pfann and Daniel Hamermesh

1998

American Indians in the Twilight of Affirmative Action
Steve Russell

Is There Wage Discrimination Against People with Disabilities? Implications for Public Policy
Thomas DeLeire

1997

The Effects of Government Policy on Human Capital Investment and Wage Inequality
James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner, Jeffrey Smith, and Christopher Taber

Knowledge and Wealth: The Role of Innovation and Human Capital in Economic Growth
Robert J. Shapiro

Title: Employment and Crime Prevention: An Economic Perspective
Shawn D. Bushway


 
Research Features
 
2007
 
Severely Disabled Workers Face Poverty Despite Government Aid
Bruce Meyer and Wallace C. Mok
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2006
 
The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women
Robert LaLonde and Rosa Cho
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2005
 
Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? Earnings Gains from Retraining in Community Colleges among Older Workers
Louis Jacobson and Robert LaLonde
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2004
 
Does Work Pay?
C. Cybele Raver
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2002
 
The Returns of Going Back to School for Displaced Workers
Robert LaLonde
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2000
 
Governance and Performance: the Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes
Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
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Job Instability Among Young Adults
Harry J. Holzer and Robert J. LaLonde
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