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

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Fredrik Andersson
Harry J. Holzer
Julia I. Lane

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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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Paper provided by Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau in its series Technical Papers with number 2002-12.

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  5. Ronald Ferguson & Randall Filer, 1986. "Do Better Jobs Make Better Workers? Absenteeism from Work Among Inner-City Black Youths," NBER Chapters, in: The Black Youth Employment Crisis, pages 261-298 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Fredrik Andersson & Simon Burgess & Julia Lane, 2004. "Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration," CEP Discussion Papers dp0648, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
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