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Social Science Quarterly. 94:881-893
Objectives The extent of individual mobility across hierarchical ranks of the income distribution is a critical factor in interpreting the sociopolitical significance of well-documented increases in cross-sectional inequality. The objective of this s
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Bradley R. Schiller
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Contemporary Economic Policy. 17:210-222
Good legislation is about ten percent of what's required to achieve true welfare reform. The other ninety percent is implementation. - U.S. Congressman Clay Shaw, September 1996 I. INTRODUCTION The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PR
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Bradley R. Schiller
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Review of Income and Wealth. 40:441-456
A complete view of inequality should encompass not only measures of distance between hierarchical ranks, but also measures of the extent of individual movement across ranks (mobility). Evidence from the NLSY indicates that relative earnings mobility
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Bradley R. Schiller
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Journal of Labor Research. 15:317-329
Federal minimum wage statutes cover only 70 percent of the work force and 30 percent of all employers. State laws are designed to close some of these coverage gaps and in some cases to set higher wage floors. Hence, differences in state wage floors a
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Bradley R. Schiller
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The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 34:131-143
Prior research on minimum wage employment tends to assume that coverage is either universal or easily estimated. In reality, coverage of teenagers and youth is low and results from a diversity of both employer and employee characteristics. Failure to
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Contemporary Economic Policy. 11:39-49
I. INTRODUCTION The Family Support Act (FSA) of 1988 substantially changed conditions of welfare dependency by requiring Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients to participate in work-related programs. FSA state-specific participati
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Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. 17:69-85
This paper examines the influence of economic factors on re-enlistment decisions in the U.S. Navy. The effect of civilian wage opportunities on re-enlistment behavior is of particular interest. The study employs a unique longitudinal data base to tra
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Review of Policy Research. 9:665-680
Between 1981 and 1987 twenty-eight states experimented with workfare programs. By requiring mandatory community service from welfare recipients, the states hoped to reduce welfare caseloads as well as increase community service. Based in part on thos
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Bradley R. Schiller
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Challenge. 38:52-54
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Bradley R. Schiller
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Challenge. 26:57-60