Finding Jobs

by Card, David E.; Blank, Rebecca M.

• ISBN13: 9780871541161
• ISBN10: 0871541165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Author Biography

Rebecca M. Blank is dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan David E. Card is Class of 1950 Professor of Economics and head of the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Patricia M. Anderson is associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. She is also faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research Timothy J. Bartik is senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Kristin F. Butcher is on leave from the Department of Economics at Boston College and is program officer at the MacArthur Foundation Janet Currie is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also research affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Stacy Dickert-Conlin is assistant professor of economics and senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University David T. Ellwood is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Science at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research Tricia Gladden is a graduate student in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University Douglas Holtz-Eakin is professor of economics and associate director of the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. He is also a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research Harry J. Holzer is professor of economics at Michigan State University Hilary W. Hoynes is assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Luojia Hu will be assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University in the fall of 2000 Robert J. LaLonde is professor of public policy at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He is also faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research Phillip B. Levine is associate professor of economics at Wellesley College. He is also research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Susan E. Mayer is associate professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She is also director of the Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Robert A. Moffitt is professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University and is affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Joint Center for Poverty Research, and the National Bureau of Economic Research LaDonna A. Pavetti is senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Philip K. Robins is professor of economics at the University of Miami and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Christopher Taber is assistant professor in the Economics Department and research associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University Jane Waldfogel is associate professor of social work and public affairs at the Columbia University School of Social Work and research associate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics Elisabeth D. Welty is research assistant in the Malcolm Wiener Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Aaron Yelowitz is assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction The Labor Market and Welfare Reform	1	(20)
Rebecca M. Blank
David E. Card
PART I THE DEMAND FOR LOW-WAGE WORKERS	21	(102)
The Employment, Earnings, And Income of Less Skilled Workers Over The Business Cycle	23	(49)
Hilary W. Hoynes
Displacement and Wage Effects Of Welfare Reform	72	(51)
Timothy J. Bartik
PART II WAGES AND JOB CHARACTERISTICS IN THE LESS SKILLED LABOR MARKET	123	(174)
Job Change and Job Stability Among Less Skilled Young Workers	125	(35)
Harry J. Holzer
Robert J. LaLonde
Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers	160	(33)
Tricia Gladden
Christopher Taber
Gender Differences In The Low-Wage Labor Market	193	(40)
Jane Waldfogel
Susan E. Mayer
Health Insurance And Less Skilled Workers	233	(29)
Janet Currie
Aaron Yelowitz
Employee-Based Versus Employer-Based Subsidies To Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective	262	(35)
Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
PART III PUBLIC POLITICS TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS OF LESS SKILLED WORKERS	297	(166)
Public Service Employment and Mandatory Work: A Policy Whose Time Has Come and Gone and Come Again?	299	(74)
David T. Ellwood
Elisabeth D. Welty
Financial Incentives For Increasing Work And Income Among Low-Income Families	373	(47)
Rebecca M. Blank
David E. Card
Philip K. Robins
Child Care And Mothers' Employment Decisions	420	(43)
Patrcia M. Anderson
Phillip B. Levine
PART IV THE IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM	463	(74)
Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs By Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children	465	(42)
Kristin F. Butcher
Luojia Hu
Time Limits	507	(30)
Robert A. Moffitt
LaDonna A. Pavetti
Index	537