Claims of employment discrimination and worker voice

Economic pressure in support of unlawful employment discrimination claims.

Employment of retired-worker women.

This article examines the employment rates of women about 18-30 months after they first received social security retired-worker benefits. The data come from the 1982 New Beneficiary Survey, a nationally representative sample of new cash beneficiaries selected from the Social Security Administration’s Master Beneficiary Record. About one-fifth of the women were working. Retiredworker women were ...

Trade Reform , Employment Allocation and Worker Flows ∗

∗This summary report synthesizes previously circulated research in Menezes-Filho, Muendler and Ramey (2008), Muendler (2008), Muendler (2004) and Menezes-Filho and Muendler (2007), partly joint with Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Garey Ramey. The report was completed while the author was visiting Princeton University. Financial support from the World Bank is gratefully acknowledged. ¶muendler...

Undocumented worker employment and firm survivability

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more likely to employ undocumented workers if competitors do. Rivals’ undocumented employment harms fi...

Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more likely to employ undocumented workers if competitors do. Rivals’ undocumented employment harms fi...