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Public Policy Brief No. 31A New Path from Welfare to Work
May 04, 1997 The 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 194The Working Poor
May 01, 1997 Most 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 193
The Impact of Declining Union Membership on Voter Participation among Democrats
May 01, 1997 No further information available. Publication -
Public Policy Brief No. 30
Prescription for Health Care Policy
April 03, 1997 With 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 189
Do States Optimize?
April 01, 1997 Studies 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 188
No Easy Answers
April 01, 1997 High 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 192
Social Security
April 01, 1997 Some 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 191
Dynamic Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
April 01, 1997 Studies 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 190
Output and Employment Effects of Public Capital
April 01, 1997 Studies 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 187
Real Estate and the Capital Gains Debate
March 01, 1997 The 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 186
Gender Wage Differentials, Affirmative Action, and Employment Growth on the Industry Level
March 01, 1997 In 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 185
Disinflationary Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Income
March 01, 1997 Some 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 Publication -
Public Policy Brief No. 29
Institutional Failure and the American Worker
February 02, 1997 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 184
The New Welfare
January 01, 1997 During 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 183
Corporate Governance and Corporate Employment
January 01, 1997 Unless 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 181
Which Immigrant Occupational Skills?
December 01, 1996 Researchers 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 180
The Utilization of Human Capital in the US, 1975–1992
December 01, 1996 The 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 179
Protracted Frictional Unemployment As a Heavy Cost of Technical Progress
December 01, 1996 In 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 182
Literacy among the Jews of Russia in 1897
December 01, 1996 Researchers 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 Publication -
Public Policy Brief No. 28
Making Work Pay
November 10, 1996 Barry 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 178
The Collapse of Low-skill Wages
November 01, 1996 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 177
Taxes, Saving, and Macroeconomics
November 01, 1996 Resident 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 176
Exploring the Politics of the Minimum Wage
November 01, 1996 Resident 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 Publication -
Working Paper No. 175
What Do Micro Data Reveal about the User Cost Elasticity?
November 01, 1996 The 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 Publication