Upjohn Working Papers

From W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
300 S. Westnedge Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 USA.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

The Job Search Intensity Supply Curve: How Labor Market Conditions Affect Job Search Effort

Jeremy Schwartz

The Effect of Medicare Eligibility on Spousal Insurance Coverage

Marcus Dillender and Karen Mulligan

Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences

Seth Gershenson

Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei and Andrea Weber

Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

Intergovernmental (Dis)incentives, Free-Riding, Teacher Salaries and Teacher Pensions

Maria Fitzpatrick

The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women over Three Decades: 1973-2003

Fidan Ana Kurtulus

Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care Reform

R. Vincent Pohl

The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska and Michal Myck

Who Benefits from a Minimum Wage Increase?

John Lopresti and Kevin Mumford

Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian Kovak

Military Retention Incentives: Evidence from the Air Force Selective Reenlistment Bonus

Justin Joffrion and Nathan Wozny

Temporary Help Employment in Recession and Recovery

Susan N. Houseman and Carolyn Heinrich

The Potential Effects of Federal Health Insurance Reforms on Employment Arrangements and Compensation

Marcus Dillender, Carolyn Heinrich and Susan N. Houseman

The Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on College Enrollment, Persistence, and Completion

Timothy Bartik, Brad Hershbein and Marta Lachowska

The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the District of Columbia on Poverty and Income Dynamics

Bradley L. Hardy, Daniel Muhammad and Rhucha Samudra

Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations

Seth Gershenson, Stephen Holt and Nicholas Papageorge

The Effect of Health Insurance on Workers' Compensation Filing: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Age-Based Threshold for Dependent Coverage

Marcus Dillender

Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics

Jonathan Meer and Jeremy West

Eligibility Recertification and Dynamic Opt-in Incentives in Income-tested Social Programs: Evidence from Medicaid/CHIP

Zhuan Pei

Use of Unemployment Insurance and Public Employment Services after Leaving Welfare

Christopher O'Leary

Should UI Eligibility Be Expanded to Low-Earning Workers? Evidence on Employment, Transfer Receipt, and Income from Administrative Data

Pauline Leung and Christopher O'Leary

Jobless Capital? The Role of Capital Subsidies

Carlianne Patrick

The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates

Marta Lachowska

The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by social programs, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses, the optimal generosity of Social Assistance decreases in the proportion of married individuals in the population. The link between optimal program design and the family context is strongest in low-educated populations

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

Estimating Hispanic-White Wage Gaps among Women: The Importance of Controlling for Cost of Living

Peter McHenry and Melissa McInerney

Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Bruce Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

Testing the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Theory with a Natural Experiment

Assaf Zimring

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure

Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes Schmieder

Migration and Housing Price Effects of Place-Based College Scholarships

Timothy Bartik and Nathan Sotherland

The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States

John Winters

Mothers' Long-Term Employment Patterns

Alexandra Killewald and Xiaolin Zhou

Income-Tested College Financial Aid and Labor Disincentives

Rajeev Darolia

The Impact of Nurse Turnover on Quality of Care and Mortality in Nursing Homes: Evidence from the Great Recession

Yaa Akosa Antwi and John Bowblis

Wage Insurance as a Policy Option in the United States

Stephen A. Wandner

Mandatory Retirement and the Consumption Puzzle: Prices Decline or Quantities Decline?

Yingying Dong and Dennis Yang

The Merits of Universal Scholarships: Benefit-Cost Evidence from the Kalamazoo Promise

Timothy Bartik, Brad Hershbein and Marta Lachowska

Domestic Outsourcing in the United States: A Research Agenda to Assess Trends and Effects on Job Quality

Annette Bernhardt, Rosemary L. Batt, Susan Houseman and Eileen Appelbaum

Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings

Brad Hershbein and Lisa Kahn

Are There Returns to Experience at Low-Skill Jobs? Evidence from Single Mothers in the United States over the 1990s

W. Looney and Dayanand Manoli

Investing in Schools: Capital Spending, Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement (Revised and Edited)

Paco Martorel, Kevin Stange and Isaac McFarlin

Are State Unemployment Insurance Reserves Sufficient for the Next Recession?

Christopher O'Leary and Kenneth J. Kline

Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Part-Time Employment: Early Evidence

Marcus Dillender, Carolyn Heinrich and Susan Houseman

The Labor Market Consequences of Regulating Similar Occupations: The Licensing of Occupational and Physical Therapists

Jing Cai and Morris M. Kleiner

The Effects of Increasing the Minimum Wage on Prices: Analyzing the Incidence of Policy Design and Context

Daniel MacDonald and Eric Nilsson

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Tulsa Universal Pre-K Program

Timothy Bartik, JOnathan A. Belford, William T. Gormley and Sara Anderson

LATE for the meeting: Gender, peer advising, and college success

Jimmy R. Ellis and Seth Gershenson

Differential Mortality and the Progressivity of Social Security

Shantanu Bagchi

Lessons from the American Federal-State unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system

Christopher O'Leary and Burt S. Barnow