2005 - 1

Tight Labor Markets and the Demand for Education: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust

The Employment Effects of a "Good Cause" Discharge Standard in Montana

When Welfare-to-Work Programs Seem to Work Well: Explaining Why Riverside and Portland Shine So Brightly

Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach Their Implicit Contracts During the Great Depression? Preliminary Findings from Company-Level Data

Analytical Modeling in Complex Surveys of Work Practices

Registered Nurses and the Value of Bilingualism

Time Off at What Price? The Effects of Career Interruptions on Earnings

The Effects of Prevailing Wage Requirements on the Cost of Low-Income Housing

[Book review of Daniel P. Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, The Future of the Family]

[Book review of H. Allan Hunt, ed., Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers' Compensation Programs]

[Book review of David I. Levine, Frank W. Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, and Cristian Echeverria, Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry]

[Book review of Jill Esbenshade, Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry]

[Book review of William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, and Edward N. Wolfe, Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences]

[Book review of Amanda L. Ahlstrand, Laurie J. Bassi, and Daniel P. McMurrer, Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers]

[Book review of Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert A. Straits, and Stephen A. Wandner, eds., Job Training Policy in the United States]

[Book review of Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan]

[Book review of Berndt Keller and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, eds., Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans- and Supranational Developments and Prospects]

[Book review of Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli, eds., Understanding Globalization, Employment, and Poverty Reduction]

[Book review of Brendan Ogle, Off the Rails: The Story of the ILDA]