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  Working Paper No. 201

  Organizational Learning and International Competition

  Over the last three decades, despite economic growth, the United States has experienced both increasing relative inequality and an absolute decline of real wages. Explanations sometimes offered for this inability to achieve sustainable prosperity are a weakening of innovative ability (a result of reduced expenditures on training, education, and research) and international competition from low-wage […]
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  Working Paper No. 200

  Second Generations

  This paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine” and “segmented assimiiation” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. Research Associate Roger Waldinger, of the University of California at Los Angeles, and Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann begin with a review of the basic approach, […]
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  Report No. 3

  Report August 1997

  In an exploration of policy proposals to expand employment opportunities, participants at this year’s Levy Institute employment conference discuss workforce development, welfare-to-work, institutional and structural labor market changes, and economic growth. In an interview with Sanjay Mongia, author and editor William Grieder calls for a global perspective to save the worldwide economic system from its […]
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  Working Paper No. 199

  Good Jobs and the Cutting Edge

  Good, stable jobs with high earnings started to disappear from the United States economy in the late 1970s. The loss of the majority of these jobs resulted from structural changes, not cyclical variations in the manufacturing sector. Robert Forrant, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, studies the machine tool industry’s role in the decline of […]
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  Working Paper No. 198

  Earnings Inequality and the Quality of Jobs

  The 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 Lowell, examines the increase in inequality, evaluates the frequently given explanations for it, and offers an improved methodology for determining its causes.
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  Working Paper No. 197

  Minimum Wage and Justice?

  Opposition 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 philosophy stresses individualism over the common project and accordingly puts the employer’s right to pay low wages over the common goal of a high-wage economy. […]
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  Working Paper No. 196

  Skiki vono ko shtuvalo?

  After 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 generating revenue through seignorage. In Ukraine inflation rates reached as high as 133 percent per month. Traditional monetary theory holds that raising revenue through money […]
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  Press Release

  Merging Welfare and Existing Unemployment Programs Would Improve Success of Welfare to Work

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  Working Paper No. 195

  “Multiracials,” Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage—The Public’s Interest

  How 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 Office of Management and Budget, after hearing reactions, will make a final ruling in late October. As immigration and intermarriage increase, this issue is becoming […]
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  Public Policy Brief No. 31

  A New Path from Welfare to Work

  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 and foster a work ethic, then it needs to be tied more closely to existing policy aimed at developing the workforce. Instead of viewing the […]
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  Public Policy Brief Highlight No. 31

  A New Path from Welfare to Work

  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 and foster a work ethic, then it needs to be tied more closely to existing policy aimed at developing the workforce. Instead of viewing the […]
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  Working Paper No. 194

  The Working Poor

  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 million working Americans remain poor. Visiting Scholar Marlene Kim, of the School of Labor and Management Relations, Cook College, Rutgers University, asks, Why are there […]