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7 publications found, searching for 'David R. Howell '

• Working Paper No. 210
  November 01, 1997

  The Effects of Immigrants on African-American Earnings

  David R. Howell and Elizabeth J. Mueller
  Abstract

  The improvement in the relative economic status of African American workers in the 1960s and 1970s was reversed in the 1980s. During that decade immigration to the United States reached…more

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• Public Policy Brief No. 29
  February 02, 1997

  Institutional Failure and the American Worker

  David R. Howell
  Abstract

  David R. Howell argues that the collapse of low-skill wages in the United States cannot be explained by a skill mismatch resulting from a technology-driven decline in the demand for…more

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• Working Paper No. 178
  November 01, 1996

  The Collapse of Low-skill Wages

  David R. Howell
  Abstract

  No recent development in the American labor market has been more dramatic and troubling than the collapse in the buying power of workers’ paychecks. This drop in the value of…more

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• Working Paper No. 105
  March 01, 1994

  The Collapse of Low-skill Male Earnings in the 1980s

  David R. Howell
  Abstract

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• Working Paper No. 101
  November 01, 1993

  Technological Change and the Demand for Skills in the 1980s

  David R. Howell
  Abstract

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• Working Paper No. 82
  December 01, 1992

  Job Quality and Labor Market Segmentation in the 1980s

  Maury Gittleman and David R. Howell
  Abstract

  The authors examine the effects of employment restructuring in the 1980s on white, black, and Hispanic men and women within a labor market segmentation framework. Cluster analysis is used to…more

• Working Paper No. 67
  December 10, 1991

  Employment Restructuring and the Labor Market Status of Young Black Men in the 1980s

  David R. Howell
  Abstract

  The decline in the employment status of young black men relative to their white peers in the post-1970 U.S. Labor market is the impetus for this research. This paper examines…more

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