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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement
(Department of Economics, 2007)
We examine the effects of temporary help service employment on later earnings and employment for individuals participating in three federal programs providing supportive services to those facing employment difficulties. ...
Contracting for Consistency: Hog Quality and the Use of Marketing Contracts
(Social Science Research Network, 2009-03)
Despite the dramatic change in the organization of the US hog industry over the
past two decades, the existing literature offers little insight into the decision by pork
packers to use long-term marketing contracts, which ...
Inflationary Finance in a Simple Voting Model
(Department of Economics, 2001)
This paper is an attempt at answering the somewhat counterfactual question: if monetary policy was to be decided in the arena of public voting (that is not by independent central banks), then what kind of monetary policies ...