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Mason, John Dancer – 1969
To test the "stoop labor" hypotheses that the supply response of domestic migrants to increased wages would be inelastic, this study examined wage adjustment in Michigan agriculture after 1964, supply response to wage changes in the pickle industry, and acreage decline and capital substitution following the termination of the bracero…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Braceros, Economic Research, Farm Labor
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
A study examined the Canadian-American Plant Closing Demonstration Project (CAPCDP) to assess the influence of the labor-management approach on factors critical to project success and to identify practices that enabled the labor-management committees set up under the project to work better. CAPCDPs in Idaho, Michigan, New Jersey, and Vermont were…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Job Layoff, Job Search Methods, Labor Economics
Marston, Stephen Tilney – 1974
The study derives a model of the unemployment insurance (UI) system and its relationship to the labor market, estimates it with data from the Detroit Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, and evaluates its potential use to forecast UI benefit amounts, UI insured unemployment, and UI exhaustions. It further uses the model to analyze policy issues…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employment Level
Somers, Gerald G. – 1972
Workers who were relocated under federally sponsored pilot mobility projects in Michigan and Wisconsin were compared with a group of nonmovers drawn from the same rural areas and with similar demographic and labor market characteristics. It was found that the movers improved their employment status, their occupational status, and their income…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Osborne, David – 1987
New economic strategies used by states are described, and case studies of the recent innovations in economic development policies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Michigan are presented. A number of programs in other states are briefly reviewed, and various models of state intervention are evaluated, along with the principles that underlie…
Descriptors: Business, Case Studies, Competition, Economic Development
Sleigh, Stephen R., Ed. – 1993
This book contains nine papers presented during a year-long series of seminars and a conference that analyzed the relationship between economic restructuring and industrial relations involving the joint academics, union leaders, government officials, business executives, and graduate fellows. These analyses include case studies from Western…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Developed Nations, Economic Change, Employer Employee Relationship
