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The authors examined factors that affected the size of the freshman class at small liberal arts colleges after a decline of ten percent or more. Although top ranked national schools needed to do little, lesser ranked ones enjoyed a greater degree of recovery by offering larger amounts of financial aid and regional schools by awarding aid to more students.

We consider a game-theoretic model of undocumented immigration with the aim of emphasizing the strategic interaction between the different forces affecting the issue. Specifically, we analyze the strategic interaction between firms in the destination country, native labor, the elected officials in the destination country, and the undocumented immigrants from the Source Country. We show that the impact of border enforcement is dampened because strategic interaction between the players will tend to mute any unilateral changes. We also study the effect of uncertainty in the labor market on migration issues and analyze the two cases where policymakers have to make their decisions before (ex-ante) or after (ex-post) the market state is realized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Germany, a social consensus on the value of apprenticeship training results in low youth unemployment and a relatively easy transition from school to work. It is heavily dependent on an adequate number of apprenticeship opportunities in the private sector. A weaker consensus in the United States might limit its success there. (JOW)

Focuses on the effects of Europe 1992 on the vocational training of workers, youth, and the unemployed within the European Community, with particular emphasis on the lessons the United States might learn. (Author)

This study estimates a multiple regression model of the level of apprentice employment on their wage rate and other controlling factors for firms in 10 construction occupations. Findings indicate that the wage rate of apprentices has little impact on the number employed. (Author/CT)

There has been very little work on the impact of rainfall on migration from Mexico or even elsewhere. We use satellite data from NASA to examine the effect of the lagged level of rainfall relative to an area's historical average, on migration from small Mexican communities to the United States. Controlling for the level of education, proportion married, and historic migration levels, we find higher levels of rainfall significantly reduce Mexican migration to the United States and a 20 percentage point higher-than-normal level of rainfall leads to a predicted 10.3 percent decrease in migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this book is to examine changes in the industrial relations systems of various nations in light of the increased degree of globalization in the world's economy. The [...]

The issue of the labor market impact of welfare programs and the taxes necessary to finance them is growing in importance in the United States and much of the developed [...]

This book is part of an ongoing study on the economics of aging conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The volume, the third in the series, contains a [...]

Reference 1. Pedersen, Jorgen. 'Some Notes on the Economic Policy of the United States during the Period 1919-1932,' in Money, Growth, and Methodology, edited by Hugo Hegeland. Lund, Sweden: CWK [...]

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21. By Joseph A. McCartin. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 303 [...]

This collection of essays explores the history of British industrial relations from World War II up to the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Although little attempt is made [...]

How employer-provided training in the United States and abroad may help improve U.S. worker productivity is the focus of this study comparing various private sector training programs. The emphasis of [...]

European Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Flexibility. Edited by Guido Baglioni and Colin Crouch. Newbury Park, CA, Sage Publications, 1990, 368 pp. The essays in this volume focus on a [...]

The Public Use Sample of the 1970 Census of Population is a rich source of data on individuals. Extensive data on income is available, but all incomes in excess of $50,000 plus are recorded as such. This makes calculating the mean for any group which includes a person in this category impossible. The project reported here estimated the mean income of males with an income in excess of $50,000 by fitting the data to a Pareto distribution of income. This was done for four different types of income. The types of income and their respective means for the open-ended category are: (1) wage and salary, $80,200; (2) business $95,500; (3) non-employment $107,200; and (4) total family $79,400. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores the reasons for the low unemployment in the Czech Republic. Historical background of Czech Republic; Overview of the economic policies during the economic transformation; Factors that contributed to Czech's low unemployment.