scholarly journals The Growth of Temporary Services Work

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis M Segal ◽  
Daniel G Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Permanent Workers ◽  
Sizable Fraction

Temporary services employment grew rapidly over the past several decades and now accounts for a sizable fraction of aggregate employment. The authors use Current Population Survey data to examine the changing nature of temporary work and discuss explanations for its growth. Temps are no longer overwhelmingly female or limited to clerical occupations. They have less labor market security than permanent workers, being prone to more unemployment and more underemployment. Few, however, are in temp positions a year later and the majority transition to permanent employment. Temp wages are approximately 20 percent below permanent workers, but individual and job characteristics explain approximately two-thirds of the gap.

scholarly journals The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. L Elsby ◽  
Ryan Michaels ◽  
Gary Solon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Unemployment Spells

A dominant trend in recent modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment inflows as acyclical. This trend has been encouraged by recent influential papers that stress the role of longer unemployment spells, rather than more unemployment spells, in accounting for recessionary unemployment. After reviewing an empirical literature going back several decades, we apply a convenient log change decomposition to Current Population Survey data to characterize rising unemployment in each postwar recession. We conclude that a complete understanding of cyclical unemployment requires an explanation of countercyclical inflow rates, especially for job losers (layoffs), as well as procyclical outflow rates. (JEL E24, E32)

scholarly journals How Internal Hiring Affects Occupational Stratification

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Wilmers ◽  
William Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Job Mobility ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Current Population

When employers conduct more internal hiring, does this facilitate upward mobility for low-paid workers or does it protect the already advantaged? To assess the effect of within-employer job mobility on occupational stratification, we develop a framework that accounts for inequality in both rates and payoffs of job changing. Internal hiring facilitates advancement for workers without strong credentials, but it excludes workers at employers with few good jobs to advance into. Analyzing Current Population Survey data, we find that when internal hiring increases in a local labor market, it facilitates upward mobility less than when external hiring increases. When workers in low-paid occupations switch jobs, they benefit more from switching employers than from moving jobs within the same employer. One-third of this difference is due to low-paid workers isolated in industries with few high-paying jobs to transfer into. An occupationally segregated labor market therefore limits the benefits that internal hiring can bring to the workers who most need upward mobility.

Comparable Worth: Limited Coverage and the Exacerbation of Inequality

ILR Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Comparable Worth ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Limited Coverage

Citing relevant judicial decisions, the author argues that any application of the comparable worth remedy for gender discrimination is likely to cover only certain groups of workers. Most likely to be covered are women who work for governmental or large private employers in female-dominated jobs, and least likely to be covered are women who work for small private employers. The implementation of comparable worth would cause the wages of noncovered workers to fall relative to those of covered workers, and they might even fall absolutely. An analysis of 1979 Current Population Survey data suggests that the women most likely to gain from comparable worth are fewer in number, better paid, and subjected to no greater discrimination than the women most likely to lose.

The Relative Earnings of Vietnam and Korean-Era Veterans

ILR Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Annual Earnings

Using Current Population Survey data for 1967 and 1979, this paper compares the earnings of Vietnam veterans to those of Korean veterans (in both cases, relative to nonveterans) at similar points in their work lives—twelve to sixteen years after their discharge. In both 1967 and 1979, the unadjusted average annual earnings of veterans and nonveterans were similar. But an analysis that controls for such factors as education, age, race, and marital status shows that Vietnam veterans were worse off than their nonveteran contemporaries in that their rate of return per year of education was much lower. By contrast, Korean veterans were economically indistinguishable from nonveterans.

scholarly journals Is Job Stability Declining in the U.S. Economy?

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Swinnerton ◽  
Howard Wial
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Job Stability ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Secular Decline ◽  
The U.S

Using Current Population Survey data, the authors examine changes in job stability during the 1980s. For consecutive four-year periods during 1979–91, they present estimates of four-year retention rates for workers with varying levels of employer-specific seniority. Retention rates of low-seniority workers rose between 1979–83 and 1983–87 but fell between 1983–87 and 1987–91. Retention rates for 1987–91 were typically lower than those for 1979–83, suggesting a secular decline in job stability during the 1980s.

scholarly journals Compensating Differentials and Unmeasured Ability in the Labor Market for Nurses: Why Do Hospitals Pay More?

ILR Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Schumacher ◽  
Barry T. Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Compensating Differentials ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Job Experience

Registered nurses (RNs) employed in hospitals realize a large wage advantage relative to RNs employed elsewhere. Cross-sectional estimates indicate a hospital RN wage advantage of roughly 20%. This paper examines possible sources of the hospital premium, a topic of some interest given the current shifting of medical care out of hospitals. Longitudinal analysis of Current Population Survey data for 1979–94 suggests that a third to a half of the advantage is due to unmeasured worker ability, and the authors conclude that the remainder of the advantage probably reflects compensating differentials for hospital disamenities. Supporting these conclusions is evidence that hospital RNs have higher cognitive ability and higher-quality job experience than non-hospital RNs, and indications that shift work accounts for roughly 10% of the hospital premium.

scholarly journals Trends in US Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 520-525
Author(s):  
Cecile Gaubert ◽  
Patrick Kline ◽  
Damián Vergara ◽  
Danny Yagan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Current Population Survey ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Us States ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Per Capita

We use Bureau of Economic Analysis, census, and Current Population Survey data to study trends in income inequality across US states and counties from 1960-2019. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per capita pretax incomes since the late1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County incomes have been diverging since the late 1970s. These trends in mean income mask opposing patterns among top-and bottom-income quantiles. Top incomes have diverged markedly across states since the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom-income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades.

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