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Working Paper No. 198July 01, 1997
Earnings Inequality and the Quality of Jobs
AbstractThe increase in earnings inequality in the United States is now a widely accepted fact that much economics literature has attempted to explain. Philip Moss, of the University of Massachusetts…more
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Working Paper No. 197July 01, 1997
Minimum Wage and Justice?
AbstractOpposition to the minimum wage, according to Resident Scholar Oren M. Levin-Waldman, ultimately rests on a popular political philosophy and a popular economic theory. The popular version of classical liberal…more
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Working Paper No. 196July 01, 1997
Skiki vono ko shtuvalo?
AbstractAfter the collapse of the Soviet bloc many of the transition economies experienced significant inflation, largely because their new monetary authorities and undeveloped tax infrastructure induced them to resort to…more
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Working Paper No. 195June 01, 1997
“Multiracials,†Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage—The Public’s Interest
AbstractHow the census of 2000 is to count “multiracial” people is a hot topic in Washington. A federal task force presented a draft of its recommendations in July, and the…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 31May 04, 1997
A New Path from Welfare to Work
AbstractThe author of this brief asks why welfare, workforce development, and unemployment insurance are operated as separate entities. If the goal of the new welfare law is to end dependency…more
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Working Paper No. 193May 01, 1997
The Impact of Declining Union Membership on Voter Participation among Democrats
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Working Paper No. 194May 01, 1997
The Working Poor
AbstractMost Americans believe that if they work hard, they should not be poor. Although recent government welfare reform policy is aimed at encouraging people to work more, seven to nine…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 30April 03, 1997
Prescription for Health Care Policy
AbstractWith health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the…more
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Working Paper No. 192April 01, 1997
Social Security
AbstractSome reform of Social Security is needed to keep the system solvent given the additional financial pressure that will be placed on it as the baby boom generation retires: the…more
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Working Paper No. 191April 01, 1997
Dynamic Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
AbstractStudies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to,…more
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Working Paper No. 190April 01, 1997
Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
AbstractStudies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to,…more
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Working Paper No. 189April 01, 1997
Do States Optimize?
AbstractStudies that have examined the effect of public spending on economic growth have reported esmates for the marginal product of public capital that are well in excess of, equal to,…more
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Working Paper No. 188April 01, 1997
No Easy Answers
AbstractHigh unemployment rates and increasing terms of unemployment have persisted in western European countries for the past 20 years. These problems have been explained as resulting from inflexibility in the…more
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Working Paper No. 185March 01, 1997
Disinflationary Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Income
AbstractSome economists and others argue that, despite years of low inflation, a further decrease in the rate of price growth would be beneficial by reducing the dead-weight losses created by…more
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Working Paper No. 187March 01, 1997
Real Estate and the Capital Gains Debate
AbstractThe recent budget agreement contains a capital gains tax cut. The principal justification for reducing the capital gains tax rate relies on the efficiency-equity trade-off. The capital gains tax is…more
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Working Paper No. 186March 01, 1997
Gender Wage Differentials, Affirmative Action, and Employment Growth on the Industry Level
AbstractIn their study of industry wage premia, Research Associates Judith Fields of Lehman College, City University of New York, and Edward N. Wolff of New York University find that gender…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 29February 02, 1997
Institutional Failure and the American Worker
AbstractDavid 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. 184January 01, 1997
The New Welfare
AbstractDuring the summer of 1996, President Clinton signed what some consider to be the most sweeping welfare reform since the initial adoption of public assistance programs in 1935. Resident Scholar…more
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Working Paper No. 183January 01, 1997
Corporate Governance and Corporate Employment
AbstractUnless American corporations change their structure of governance, it is unlikely that many will remain prosperous in this age of global competition, argue Research Associates William H. Lazonick and Mary…more
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Working Paper No. 182December 01, 1996
Literacy among the Jews of Russia in 1897
AbstractResearchers exploring Jewish literacy have traditionally ignored the Russian Census of 1897 on the grounds that it underreported Jewish literacy. Most have felt that the low literacy percentage reported for…more
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Working Paper No. 181December 01, 1996
Which Immigrant Occupational Skills?
AbstractResearchers have long sought explanations for the success of Jews who migrated to the United States at the turn of the century in attaining middle-class status. East European Jews arrived…more
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Working Paper No. 180December 01, 1996
The Utilization of Human Capital in the US, 1975–1992
AbstractThe experience that comes with age and the productive capacity of youth are both assets widely underused in the American labor market, according to Research Associate Robert Haveman and co-authors…more
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Working Paper No. 179December 01, 1996
Protracted Frictional Unemployment As a Heavy Cost of Technical Progress
AbstractIn this working paper, Research Associates William Baumol and Edward N. Wolff, both of New York University, explore the effects of the rate of technological progress on unemployment. They hypothesize…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 28November 10, 1996
Making Work Pay
AbstractBarry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts and Teresa Ghilarducci of the University of Notre Dame show that although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past…more
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