m r r Feeling was running high this week in the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, as evidence mounted tha t a figure of 300 layoffs might rise to 400. Affected in the first 300 were 149 temporary employees and 30 permanent assistant interviewers in the NYC field offices, and 131 temporary employees in the Albany headquarters offices. Among the "temps" are many former permanent a...

Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000 This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel, cross-sectional...