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Low Wage Work The need to improve the earnings of low-wage workers remains a challenge for current welfare policy. The LED program data - with the insights into the interactions between workers and firms over the 1990's until 2002 provide a unique opportunity to examine
Summary Work funded by the Rockefeller/Russell Sage Foundations, which will be forthcoming in a book tentatively titled "Moving Up Or Moving On: Workers, Firms and Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market" by Fredrik Anderson, Harry Holzer and Julia Lane finds the following: Almost half of workers who persistently had low earnings from 1996-98 earned somewhat higher incomes in 1999-2001. Low earners who changed jobs during that time were considerably more likely to garner higher earnings in the latter period than those who stayed at the same job. More Information Research and Working Papers
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies · Contact Us · Last Revised: October 26, 2006 |
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