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Purser cited in Albany Times Union article on state dairy worker injuries

The Albany Times Union article, "Two-thirds of dairy workers have been injured at least once, report finds," features Gretchen Purser's recently released report, "Milked: Dairy Farmworkers in New York," that looks at the treatment and working conditions of immigrant laborers who work in milking parlors and barns in New York State. “The rates of injury were far higher than we expected,” Purser told the Times Union. “That was stunning.” 07/11/17
July 11, 2017

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Monnat article on the Great Recession and America's geography of unemployment published in DR

Brian Thiede & Shannon M. Monnat
September 26, 2016

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WP 184 Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage in a Developing Country

Hugo Jales
This paper proposes a new framework to identify the effects of the minimum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wages in a developing country.
September 30, 2015

See related: Income, Labor

Singleton relationship between disability onset, earnings, and disability insurance published in EL

Perry Singleton
August 31, 2014

See related: Health Policy, Insurance, Labor

Wilcoxen chapter on an economic approach to general equilibrium modeling featured in Handbook

Dale W. Jorgenson, Hui Jin,Daniel T. Slesnick & Peter J. Wilcoxen
February 26, 2013

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Flores-Lagunes study on the impact of Job Corps on Hispanic youth published Economic Inquiry

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez & Todd C. Neumann
June 30, 2010

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