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The interactions of workers and firms in the low-wage labor market

August 2002

Working Paper Number:

tp-2002-12

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of workers who persistently have low earnings in the labor market over a period of three or more years. Some of these workers manage to escape from this low-earning status over subsequent years, while many do not. Using data from the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) project at the U.S. Census Bureau, we analyze the characteristics of persons and especially of their firms and jobs that enable some to improve their earnings status over time.

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census data, survey, employee, employ, employed, labor, employment growth, economic census, hiring, workforce, worker, disadvantaged, effects employment, occupation, employment dynamics, wage industries, poverty, census bureau, household surveys, employer household, aging, longitudinal employer, unemployed, household income

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National Science Foundation, Financial, Insurance and Real Estate Industries, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Urban Institute, Current Population Survey, 1940 Census, Survey of Income and Program Participation, Cornell University, Unemployment Insurance, National Institute on Aging, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Department of Health and Human Services, Earned Income Tax Credit, Public Use Micro Sample

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