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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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Working Paper No. 176November 01, 1996
Exploring the Politics of the Minimum Wage
AbstractResident Scholar Oren M. Levin-Waldman argues that, although the minimum wage is a serious economic issue, enacting an increase in the minimum wage is a political one. He finds that…more
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Working Paper No. 175November 01, 1996
What Do Micro Data Reveal about the User Cost Elasticity?
AbstractThe responsiveness of business investment to user costs (interest rates, taxes, and depreciation rates) is important in determining the effect of fiscal policy and aggregate stabilization policy on the economy…more
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Working Paper No. 174November 01, 1996
The Second Generation and the Children of the Native-Born
AbstractRecent discussion and some preliminary research have given a negative prognosis for children of immigrants. Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger, professor of sociology at the University of California…more
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Working Paper No. 178November 01, 1996
The Collapse of Low-skill Wages
AbstractNo 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. 177November 01, 1996
Taxes, Saving, and Macroeconomics
AbstractResident Scholar Neil H. Buchanan offers an analysis of the macroeconomic effects of current proposals to reform the tax system (e.g., a flat tax or a national sales tax), focusing…more
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Working Paper No. 173October 01, 1996
A Critique of Competing Plans for Radical Tax Restructuring
AbstractAt almost any time there exists a plan to alter the structure of taxation, and their number seems to increase during election years. Resident Scholar Neil Buchanan analyzes several recent…more
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Working Paper No. 172October 01, 1996
Selective Migration As a Basis for Upward Mobility?
AbstractThe upward mobility of Jews who migrated to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century has been explained as a function of premigrational cultural characteristics (such as…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 27September 09, 1996
Targeting Inflation
AbstractThe targets for monetary policy adopted by the Fed in recent years have not proven to be closely correlated with inflation, leading some theorists and policymakers to advocate the use…more
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Book SeriesSeptember 01, 1996
Stability in the Financial System
AbstractThe S&L crisis of the 1990s led many analysts to review the events that culminated in the banking crisis of the 1930s and the subsequent passage of the Emergency Banking…more
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Working Paper No. 171July 21, 1996
Rethinking Health Care Policy—The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies
AbstractMore than 40 million Americans currently have no access to health care for reasons of income. Moreover, plans enacted or discussed at the state level to cover the uninsured face…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 26July 08, 1996
Making Unemployment Insurance Work
AbstractWhat is needed to solve the problem of growing long-term unemployment is a two-tiered system that distinguishes between short-term and long-term unemployment. The system should continue to function as an…more
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Working Paper No. 170June 11, 1996
Which Deficit?
AbstractFor some time economists have acknowledged that reported budgetary data do not necessarily reflect actual economic activity. Agreement has not been reached, however, on how budget figures should be adjusted…more
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Working Paper No. 169June 10, 1996
Comparing Alternative Methods of Adjusting US Federal Fiscal Deficits for Cyclical and Price Effects
AbstractIn this working paper, Resident Scholar Neil H. Buchanan statistically tests six alternative definitions of the federal budget deficit to determine if these definitions improve the results of econometric studies…more
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Working Paper No. 168June 09, 1996
Assimilation
AbstractAssimilation of today’s immigrants is one topic in the current debate on immigration. Some observers assert that recent immigrants are unable to assimilate into American society as easily as past…more
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Working Paper No. 167June 08, 1996
Money, Finance, and National Income Determination
AbstractTraditional economic models have largely failed to account adequately for the roles of money and finance in economic operations. For example, traditional models assume an exogenously determined, fixed money stock…more
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Working PaperJune 01, 1996
The Minimum Wage and the Path Toward a High Wage Economy
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