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Labor Supply Pressures and the "Brain Drain": Signs From Census 2000
White Papers This paper assesses the scale of labor market pressures in different regions of the country brought about by migration patterns and demographic change during the 1990s. It uses data from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses to explore threats to...
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Labor Coach
Downloads The labor coach is designed to help your labor. With the labor coach, you can accurately and easily time your contractions so you can give precise information to your birth attendant. Packed with features, the labor coach is a must for any about to...
[June 2, 2005, 8:00]
Data Domain Case Study: Labor Ready
White Papers Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor, light industrial and skilled trades. After a thorough analysis of all its options, Labor Ready chose Data Domain's Capacity Optimized Storage for its exceptional...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
The Business Imperative: Tackling Today’s Biggest Integration Cost Driver: Labor
White Papers This paper will explore how mid-size companies can reduce application and data integration costs by tackling one of the biggest integration cost drivers - labor. The first section of the paper reviews traditional application integration costs...
[May 22, 2004, 1:03]
Can Market-Clearing Models Explain U.S. Labor Market Fluctuations?
White Papers Second, it will look at how a RBC model with indivisible labor supply is constructed and analyze its predictions for the labor market. Finally, it will develop a simple framework that demonstrates how a more realistic treatment of unemployment and...
[September 15, 2003, 7:34]
Labor Day
Downloads Labor Day is a contraction & pregnancy labor monitoring software for Mac OS X. Labor Day can time not only each individual contraction, but it can figure out how much time has elapsed between contractions.
[February 10, 2004, 6:00]
Labor Standards in the Arab World
White Papers Labor standards were incorporated within this declaration, which is adopted by all members of the United Nations. Currently the abuses and issues of labor standards within the majority of the developing world is a major problem.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development
White Papers This paper will discuss the nature and importance of human capital, present an overview of human capital-labor standards linkages, and the rationale for making core international labor standards a part of the rules governing the global economy...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment
White Papers Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Optimizing Infrastructure: The Relationship Between IT Labor Costs and Best Practices for Systems Management Server
White Papers This paper examines the relationship between IT labor costs and best practices for Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). SMS is designed to reduce labor costs through automation by eliminating the need to visit individual PCs to perform...
[March 2, 2007, 0:00]
Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing
White Papers Several analysts claim that firms have been using more flexible work arrangements in order to contain the costly adjustment of labor to changes in economic conditions. In particular, temporary help supply (THS) employment as increased dramatically...
[September 16, 2003, 5:23]
Older Workers: Policies of Other Nations to Increase Labor Force Participation
White Papers In many nations, despite their numerous differences, increasing the labor force participation of older workers is an element of the policies chosen to reform national pension systems. Encouraging workers to stay in the labor force longer can help...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
The Emergence of a Binational Mexico-US Workforce: Implications for Farm Labor Workforce Security
White Papers In this paper, the authors argue that the U.S.agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one and that it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
Employment and Wage Consequences of Young Women's Labor Force and Job Transitions
White Papers Using the NLSY79 (Work History File) the paper examines two facets of women's labor market dynamics between ages 16-30, namely transitions between employment and non-employment, and transitions among employers.
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
DataHouse Case Study: State of Hawaii, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
White Papers In Hawaii, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) handles tens of thousands of claims and status reports are made each year for disability compensation. With the intake process being manually based, submittals were time-consuming...
[November 13, 2008, 0:21]
Employment Rates for Single Mothers Fell Substantially During Recent Period of Labor Market Weakness
White Papers It is less well known, however, that during the last few years of labor market weakness, the proportion of single mothers who are employed has fallen. It is widely known that the proportion of single mothers who were employed increased...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Increasing Returns and Optimal Oscillating Labor Supply
White Papers This paper shows that in a continuous-time model with increasing returns to labor (IRL) that if the economy features multiple competitive equilibria, the optimal path of investment, employment and consumption cannot be constant, or even smoothly...
[June 28, 2005, 3:00]
Dualism in the Labor Market: A Perspective on the Lewis Model After Half a Century
White Papers This paper offers a fresh perspective after half a century on Lewis's seminal ideas regarding labor market dualism. This paper asks how the Lewis model might be viewed from the perspective of economic science half a century later.
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
The Effect of Changes in Labor Markets on the Natural Rate of Unemployment
White Papers This paper summarizes and assesses recent research on the ways in which changes in the composition of the labor force and in the operation of labor markets may have affected the natural rate of unemployment.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Population and Labor Market Trends and Economic Development Opportunities for Glacier County, Montana
White Papers This paper identifies demographic, economic, and labor market trends. The economic development potential and opportunities suggested by the data are outlined and discussed. This analysis is part of larger community audit process by the Glacier...
[June 15, 2005, 3:00]
