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In the paper, researchers exploit data from the 1986–87 Washington Alternative Work Search experiment (merged with nine years of follow-up administrative wage records) to estimate the causal effects of eliminating the unemployment insurance (UI) work search requirement (WSR) on duration of non-employment, tenure with first post-claim employer, number of post-claim employers, long-term earnings, employment, and hours worked. For UI claimants as a whole, they find that eliminating the WSR had little influence, either positive or negative, on long-term post-claim outcomes.

The underreporting of occupational injuries and illnesses to worker protection agencies has become a topic of great concern to researchers and policymakers. Although numerous studies have quantified the prevalence of the phenomenon, which specific types of injuries and establishments are most susceptible to underreporting is poorly understood. As a consequence, regulators have very little capacity to “red flag” employers that are likely to underreport the most injuries. The paper begins to fill this gap in existing literature in four interrelated ways.

The empirical literature on union effects on occupational safety and health within firms struggles with two primary obstacles to credibly estimating the effect of unionization on workplace safety. First, unionized employees may be more likely to report occupational risks to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), inducing greater rates of inspection and citation of unionized firms for violations than occurs in otherwise similar nonunion firms. This is a kind of measurement error in commonly-used workplace safety outcomes that is positively correlated with unionization.

In the paper, researchers describe how they test for early labor market effects in terms of eased job-lock from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion of January 2014 that targeted non-elderly low-income adults. An expansion of health insurance options not tied to employment could increase job turnover among newly eligible low-income populations, enabling them to move to preferred jobs (measured here as higher wage jobs).

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The brief presents high-level findings from the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

National section of the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) section of the Survey of the Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

Wage and Hour Division (WHD) section of the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

Working Women section of the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

Non-Response Report of the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report.

Appendices to the Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights Final Report: Appendix A: Methodology, Appendix B: Survey Instrument, and Appendix C: Standard Error Estimates.

The report describes a study that uses administrative data from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on reviews of federal contractors that closed between fiscal years 2003 and 2012 to examine trends in, and factors associated with, violations and re-violations of equal employment opportunity laws and the effectiveness of remedies and press releases to deter re-violations.

The brief presents high-level findings from the Using Administrative Data to Address Federal Contractor Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws Final Report.

Under a contract funded through the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO), Eastern Research Group (ERG) and its subcontractor the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC), conducted a study to examine the level of accuracy and completeness of injury/illness reporting in the mining industry and identify feasible improvement approaches that Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) could implement. MSHA considers accurate data on injuries and illnesses critical to the Agency’s core mission of worker protection.

Appendix A to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: Selection of Kentucky Case Records for Matching.

Appendix B to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: Kentucky WC-Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) Data Crosswalk for Body Part Injured.

Appendix C to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: Selection of California Case Records for Matching.

Appendix D to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: California Industry Names and Descriptions.

Appendix E to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: California WC-Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) Data Crosswalk for Body Part Injured

Appendix F to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: Sample Size Calculation for Random Audits

Appendix G to the Evaluation of Accuracy and Completeness of Nonfatal Injury and Illness Reporting in the Mining Industry Final Report: Non-linear Regression Results for Targeting Factors.

In 2010, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis made Good Jobs for Everyone the strategic vision for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), characterizing a good job as one that “…is safe and secure and gives people a voice in the workplace.” From this vision, DOL developed the concept of “Worker’s Rights – Access, Assertion, and Knowledge” (WRAAK) as a way of measuring Secretary Solis’ vision.

Appendix A to the Workers' Rights - Access, Assertion, and Knowledge in Mining Final Report: Statement of Work, Measuring Voice in the Workplace: Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA).

Appendix B to the Workers' Rights - Access, Assertion, and Knowledge in Mining Final Report: Final Design Report.