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作者：Christofides, LN; McKenna, CJ
摘要：We use data from the Canadian 2-year longitudinal Labour Market Activity Survey of 1986-87 to estimate the effect of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system on job duration. Particular attention is focused on the ''entrance requirements'' of the UI system, which relate eligibility for UI benefits to an individual's recent employment history. The article makes operational the UI entrance requirement provisions which take into account variations in the regional unemployment rate. Controlling for ...
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作者：Blakemore, AE; Burgess, PL; Low, SA; StLouis, RD
摘要：We use unique data to analyze employer tax compliance with Unemployment Insurance (UI) provisions. The data indicate that employers may have underreported $728 million of UI taxes nationally in 1987 alone. To formally examine this noncompliance, a theoretical model of payroll tax evasion is developed showing that increasing payroll tax rates, among other things, likely increases noncompliance by risk-neutral firms. This prediction is empirically verified. The finding that UI tax evasion is sys...
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作者：Grogger, J
摘要：Around 1980, the trend toward racial wage convergence essentially stopped. I ask whether this break in the convergence trend can be explained by school quality. Department of Education surveys provide earnings data for the high school Class of 1972 in 1979 and the Class of 1980 in 1986, both linked to data from the respondents' high schools. By several measures, differences between schools attended by blacks and whites were already rather small in the 1970s. Furthermore, I find that measurable...
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作者：McCue, K
摘要：This article presents evidence that internal mobility, defined as a promotion or other position change, is an important source of wage growth. Tt accounts :or approximately 15% of wage growth over the life cycle for white and black men, but less for women. The incidence of promotions and other position changes appears tied to the wage level: better paid workers are more likely to be promoted. The life-cycle incidence of internal mobility looks similar to that for conventionally defined job mob...
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作者：Park, KS
摘要：This article analyzes the causes of workers' multiskill training and, based on a survey of manufacturing plants and workers in Korea, concludes that multiskill capability arises from specific on-the-job training paid for by the firm. I describe various aspects of multiskilled workers and set up a theoretical model in which multiskilled workers are assumed to be more productive than specialized workers for producing a new product but less productive for producing an existing product. The model ...
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作者：Brewer, DJ
摘要：Conventional models predict that workers consider employment opportunities and monetary rewards expected over their lifetimes when making current period decisions such as whether to quit a job. This article tests the hypothesis that later career opportunities affect quit decisions by examining the relationship between teaching and school administration. Evidence on the extent to which administrative positions are available to teachers, and the salary premia associated with them, is presented. ...
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作者：Swinnerton, KA
摘要：This article analyzes a minimum wage in a market with imperfect information and job search. It establishes that employment effects of a minimum wage do not generally indicate welfare effects. It shows that researchers interested in welfare consequences should ask two questions. First, is the existing minimum wage binding? Second, do some firms that would be bound by a new minimum wage presently experience labor shortages? If the answers to these questions are no and lies, respectively, this ar...
