{"title":"Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: a Study of South Carolina","authors":"J. Heckman, Brook S. Payner","doi":"10.3386/W2854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W2854","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate competing explanations. Human capital stories, supply shift stories and tight labor market stories do not account for the black breakthrough. Our study documents a significant contribution of federal antidiscrimination programs.","PeriodicalId":423579,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Labor (Topic)","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114188386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Models of Firm Behavior Under Minimum Wage Legislation","authors":"D. Bloom, G. Grenier","doi":"10.3386/w1877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/w1877","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets out three simple models of firm behavior under minimum wage legislation. The key feature of these models is that they account for important aspects of the government's mechanism for monitoring and enforcing compliance with the minimum wage law. The major results of the paper are (1) that minimum wage legislation does not generally lead to upward movements along labor demand curves but rather, that it often leads to movements off, and to the left, of the labor demand curve; (2) that minimum wage legislation is likely to have a positive effect on the distribution of wages paid to workers who would earn less than the minimum in the absence of the legislation, but is not likely to bring all of those workers up to the minimum; and (3) that imposing additional penalties on second offenders promotes compliance by firms with no previous violations. The paper considers the implications of these results for empirical work on the adverse employment effects of minimum wage legislation andfor the design of government compliance mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":423579,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Labor (Topic)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"НОВИТЕ ВИДОВЕ ТРУДОВИ ДОГОВОРИ – АКТУАЛНА ФОРМА НА ЗАЕТОСТ (The New Employment Contracts – Current Form of Employment)","authors":"Andriyana Andreeva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3443115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3443115","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Bulgarian Abstract:</b> В доклада са разгледани същностните характеристики и спецификите на новите трудови договори, въведени в българското законодателство с промените в КТ от 2010 и 2014 г. Целта е да бъде анализирана актуалната трудовоправна уредба на новите видовете трудови договори като проява и отражение на процеса на „одоговаряне“ в трудовото право, разпрострял се и в останалите правни отрасли. На база на анализа са направени изводи и препоръки относно практическото приложение на тези договори. <br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> The paper presents the essential characteristics and specificities of the new employment agreements, introduced to the Bulgarian legislation with the amendments of the Labor code in the year 2010 and 2014. The purpose is to analyze the current labor-law regulation of the new employment agreements as a manifestation and reflection of the process of“negotiation“ in the labor law, which expands also into the other law departments. On basis of the analysis the author makes conclusions and gives recommendations to the practical application of this agreements. <br>","PeriodicalId":423579,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Labor (Topic)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}