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- Inward Foreign Direct Investment And Racial Employment Patterns In U.S. Manufacturing
- This paper uses several data sources to predict the effect of Foreign Direct Investment FDI activity on racial employment patterns. Findings indicate that FDI is associated with an improved probability of black employment in high-wage and mid-level wage jobs versus low wage jobs. FDI does not influence racial employment disparity...
- White papers 2006-11-20
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- Don't Price People Out of a Job
- As well as worrying about maximum pay in boardrooms, ministers should look at the minimum wages on the shop floor. If government wants more young people to find jobs it must consider lowering the cost of employing them.  Britain has nearly a million people aged under 25...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Understanding the Minimum Wage
- Every U.S. business must comply with the minimum wage laws of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA. This article shows the current national minimum hourly wage, explains whom it applies to, and lists the exceptions. It also describes which elements of workers' pay are included in the minimum wage...
- Articles 2007-09-28
- The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?
- Recession, government spending, and demographics are transforming the workforce right before your eyes. To protect your career, make sure you're on the right side of history. If history is any guide, unemployment will continue to rise after the recession bottoms out, according to Steve Hipple, an economist with the...
- Articles 2009-06-24
- Winners and Losers in the New Job Market
- The fall of Lehman and the broader financial crisis have transformed the job market. Among the consequences: Women are now better off than men and part-time is the new full-time. Here's how you can succeed in the new economic order. But it’s not the sheer numbers of jobs shed...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- Measuring Union and Nonunion Wage Growth : Puzzles in Search of Solutions
- This paper presents conflicting evidence on trends in private sector union and nonunion wages. The ECI shows a substantial decrease in wage growth for union relative to nonunion workers. The annual Employer Costs for Employee Compensation ECEC, drawn from the same survey data as the ECI, provides wage level estimates...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- A Feasible Equilibrium Search Model Of Individual Wage Dynamics With Experience Accumulation
- We present a tractable equilibrium job search model of individual worker careers allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. We estimate our structural model on a panel of Danish matched employer-employee data and use it to analyze the determinants of wage dispersion and individual wage dynamics. Our...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- MUTED OPPOSITION.(Congress considering minimum wage increase)(Brief Article)
- Legislation to increase the minimum wage is working its way through Congress and, as usual, business is opposing it. But this time the resistance isn't as public. The Coalition for Job Opportunities--an alliance of the National Restaurant Assn., the Legislation to increase the minimum wage...
- Research articles 1999-06-21
- Doubts Raised About Wal-Mart's New Wage Figure
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com on Wal-Mart's recent statement regarding its wage and job data: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com on Wal-Mart's recent statement regarding its...
- Research articles 2006-01-10
- Temps benefit financially from tight job market
- Temporary workers are starting entry-level jobs at pay scales averaging 59 percent more than the $5.15 minimum wage, according to a survey by Oklahoma City-based Express Personnel Services. The Express survey of franchisees in 40 cities found that all paid more than the minimum wage. Entry-level starting pay...
- Research articles 2000-05-02
- Pressure builds for better immigrant worker protections. (News Scan).(Senate planning action to reduce immigrant job-related injuries, illnesses and deaths)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The hottest workplace safety and health issue in Washington at the moment is mounting pressure to do a better job of protecting immigrants and other low-wage workers. The hottest workplace safety and health issue in Washington at the moment is mounting pressure to do...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Volkswagen seeks zero wage round in upcoming pay talks
- FRANKFURT AFP ? Volkswagen, Europe's leading car maker, said it saw no room for wage hikes in the upcoming pay talks, rejecting union demands for pay increases of four percent and wide-ranging job guarantees. "There is no room for increases in income," VW's human resources chief Peter Hartz told...
- Research articles 2004-08-23
- Jobs Will Be Lost and Businesses Will Close If Minimum Wage Goes to $10.69/Hour
- SANTA MONICA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 1, 1999-- Business owners are warning they will have to lay off workers and close shop if the city adopts a minimum wage of $10.69/hour being proposed for a designated coastal zone in the city of Santa Monica. "This extreme minimum-wage proposal is a...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- Job Havens: The Best Large Cities
- From Austin, Texas to Seattle, Washington, these large U.S. cities offer job hunters some of the best opportunities to find high-paying, cutting-edge work. To find them, we examined the most recent employment and wage data and spoke to experts to get some of the information behind the numbers…The outlook is...
- Articles 2009-04-01
- Volkswagen workers walk out in Hanover, wage talks to continue
- FRANKFURT AFP — Hundreds of workers at German auto maker Volkswagen's Hanover plant walked off the job, as management and union representatives readied to resume deadlocked wage and job talks. Two stoppages were scheduled throughout the day, while around 30,000 workers were expected to gather at VW headquarters in...
- Research articles 2004-11-02
- GAO suggests research on getting TANF recipients over minimum wage.
- More needs to be done to help welfare recipients earn above minimum wage and thereby move off of public assistance, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report. To that end, GAO has recommended that the Health and Human Services Department conduct...
- Research articles 2006-01-12
- Statement on signing the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
- Today I have signed into law H.R. 3448, the "Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996."This is important and long overdue legislation that provides a badly needed pay raise for millions of Americans and their families who struggle to make ends meet while working at the minimum wage. The Act...
- Research articles 1996-08-26
- Job Havens: The Best International Cities
- Like everything else, labor is a global market and so here are three of the best foreign cities to consider moving to for work. These three cities — Vancouver, Shanghai, and Mumbai — all offer excellent opportunities for finding well-paying, professional jobs…For those contemplating a move abroad for work, these...
- Articles 2009-04-04
- UNFAIR HARVARD.(actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon join rally for $10.25-an-hour minimum wage at Harvard University)(Brief Article)
- When Harvard employees rallied for a $10.25-an-hour minimum wage in early May, backers packed the Yard. Credit the Progressive Student Labor Movement's Living Wage Campaign with a fine job of publicizing the rally. But there's no denying that the appearance of actors Ben Affleck and Matt...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- Wage changes and intrafirm job mobility over the business cycle: two case studies.
- Despite the many reasons to expect sluggish wage adjustment, recent evidence suggests that real wages are quite procyclical growing more rapidly during economic expansions than during recessions and that this wage procyclicality pertains even to workers who stay with the same employer. One possible explanation for these findings is the...
- Research articles 1997-04-01
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