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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).
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.