Download or read book Three Essays on Labor Market Regulation in the American Construction Industry written by Matthew Phillip Hinkel and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-article dissertation focuses on labor market regulation in the American construction industry. The United States faces two parallel crises: one with affordable housing supply, and one with maintaining residential construction labor standards. Historically, issues with labor standards have been addressed on public works through prevailing wage requirements. Labor standards-while good for workers-may increase construction costs; higher costs, in turn, negatively impact low-income families by reducing supplies of affordable housing. In Chapter 1 of this dissertation, I re-examine whether this tradeoff exists and, if so, its implications. I estimate that prevailing wage requirements add, at most, 6% to the costs of affordable housing construction. The implicit baseline for this paper is the current practices in the residential construction industry, including the cost advantages realized by contractors engaging in illegal and undesirable practices. An alternative baseline would be the cost of building affordable housing for contractors who abide by labor standards, classify their workers correctly and pay the required amounts in social insurance and taxes.Informal employment, defined as the illegal misclassification of employees as independent contractors or employment of workers using cash-only payments, has long been rampant in the American construction industry. These actions rob workers of legally earned benefits, defund social programs, and undermine the competitiveness of law-abiding contractors. While enforcing labor laws has proved difficult, prevailing wage laws may make states abler to strengthen enforcement and limit informality. Under penalty of law, these regulations require employers to submit weekly certified payrolls to government agencies on public works projects, which increases governmental oversight. In Chapter 3 of this dissertation, I use state-level data from 2010-2019 to examine the relationship between prevailing wage laws and informal construction employment. State prevailing wage laws, even those of weak and average strength, are associated with significant reductions in informality.Lastly, Chapter 2 of this dissertation focuses on occupational licensing requirements in construction. Over time, disagreements have persisted over the effects of occupational licensing on markets and the appropriate role of government in the regulation of occupations. In Chapter 2, I exploit state variation in occupational licensing laws to examine labor market outcomes of occupational licensing in construction. Data on licensing comes from 2016-2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) data as well as a new 2019 data set on licensing requirements for the three primary construction occupations that require licensing in certain states: electricians, plumbers, and operating engineers. Consistent with prior literature, results suggest the presence of occupational licensing is associated with an 8.3 to 14.8 percentage point increase in earnings for electricians, plumbers, and operating engineers. Employment results are more mixed; while these results suggest occupational licensing is associated with a 1.2 to 1.3 percentage point increase in the proportion of workers employed as electricians, plumbers, or operating engineers, effects on the level of employment in these occupations were not statistically significant. In supplemental analyses I explore possible competing explanations for these employment findings.
Download or read book Seasonal Unemployment in the Construction Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three Essays on Individual Decisions and Interactions on the Labor Market and Aggregated Inequality written by Simon Gemkow and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union and Open shop Construction written by Clinton C. Bourdon and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Research and Development a 16 year Compendium 1963 78 written by United States. Employment and Training Administration and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Directory, research and development in labour market, vocational training, employment, etc., 1963 to 1978.
Download or read book The Capability Approach to Labour Law written by Brian Langille and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago Amartya Sen introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality: the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension' and the claim that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things'). These ideas, as developed by Sen and Martha C. Nussbaum, have launched an academic armada now proceeding under the flag of the 'capability approach' (CA). While that flag has ventured far and wide and engaged many areas of inquiry, this volume of essays is the first to explore how CA might shed light upon labour law. The capabilities approach can illuminate our understanding of labour law across three dimensions. Part I looks at the nature of the basic relationship between CA and labour law-do they share common ground or disagree about what is important? Can the CA provide a normative 'foundation' for labour law? Part II goes further by examining the relationship of the CA and other well-established perspectives on labour law, including economics, history, critical theory, restorative justice, and human rights. Part III examines the possible relevance of the CA to a range of specific labour law issues, such as freedom of association, age discrimination in the workplace, trade, employment policy, and sweatshop goods.
Download or read book Labour Regulation and Development written by Shelley Marshall and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of arguments about the economic and social effects of the regulation of labour, and whether it is likely to be helpful or harmful to development. Authored by contributors from a variety of fields, primarily legal as well as development studies, economics and regulatory studies, the book presents both empirical and theoretical analyses of the issues. With authors from several continents, this collection is unique in that it focuses on labour regulation in poor and middle-income countries rather than industrialised ones, therefore making it a significant contribution to the field.
Download or read book Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law written by Sheldon Friedman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of an October 1993 conference on labor law reform jointly sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell U. and the Department of Economic Research at the AFL-CIO, this volume both argues the need for fundamental reform of the legal and institutional underpinnings o
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Download or read book Economy in Society written by Michael J. Piore and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent economists discuss internal labor markets, the dynamics of immigration, labor market regulation, and other key topics in the work of Michael J. Piore. In Economy in Society, five prominent social scientists honor Michael J. Piore in original essays that explore key topics in Piore's work and make significant independent contributions in their own right. Piore is distinctive for his original research that explores the interaction of social, political, and economic considerations in the labor market and in the economic development of nations and regions. The essays in this volume reflect this rigorous interdisciplinary approach to important social and economic questions. M. Diane Burton's essay extends our understanding of internal labor markets by considering the influence of surrounding firms; Natasha Iskander builds on Piore's theory of immigration with a study of Mexican construction workers in two cities; Suzanne Berger highlights insights from Piore's work on technology and industrial development; Andrew Schrank takes up the theme of regulatory discretion; and Charles Sabel discusses theories of public bureaucracy.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy written by Peter Berck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over market-based instruments (MBI).
Download or read book Research Handbook of Employment Relations in Sport written by Michael Barry and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employment relations, much discussed in other industries, has often been neglected in professional sports despite its unique characteristics. The book aims to explore in detail the unique nature of the employment relationship in professional sports and the sport industry.
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Download or read book Labor Markets and Wage Determination written by Clark Kerr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
