Browsing by Subject "Labor"

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    • Coronavirus Economics: The Impact of Shutting Down Meatpacking Plants 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-01)
      Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 infections at meatpacking plants led to shutdowns across the United States. Beef became scarcer and with higher consumer prices, while ranchers received lower prices for their beef. ...
    • The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Hours of Work 
      Masucci, Alex (2014-09-22)
      In this paper, I use data from the American Time Use Survey to determine whether there is a causal relationship between the minimum wage and hours of work. As hiring and firing decisions are costly, it may be the case that ...
    • Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Nonprofit Sector 
      Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-12-20)
      The nonprofit sector’s ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the private sector in a number of ways. We analyze how nonprofits are affected by changes in the minimum wage utilizing data from the Bureau ...
    • On a Flood of Words: Race and Ethnicity in the Language of Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Texas 
      Roe, Robin L (2015-07-27)
      My thesis will show that newspaper reports on weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest borderlands between 1899 and 1921 reflect the change in racial and ethnic identities during the rise of the Jim ...
    • Poverty, solidarity, and opportunity: the 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers' strike 
      Keyworth, Matthew Jerrid (2009-05-15)
      In 1938, San Antonio’s pecan shellers waged a five-week strike against their employers. The shellers had few resources at their disposal, and, moreover, most of them were Mexican women. During the work stoppage, the picketers ...
    • Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games 
      Van Huyck, John; Viriyavipart, Ajalavat (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-01-01)
      This article was published as part of the PERCspectives on Research Newsletter, Winter 2015 Edition.
    • The Impact of Labor Income Reward Plan: EITC Experiment Series in China 
      Guo, Xiongfei (2020-04-16)
      China currently has no in-work benefit nor social welfare programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) in the United States. Yet, the literature and global evidence have suggested EITC-type programs' potentials ...
    • Unity, Justice and Protection: The Colored Trainmen of America's Struggle to End Jim Crow in the American Railroad Industry [and Elsewhere] 
      James, Ervin (2012-10-19)
      The Colored Trainmen of America (CTA) actively challenged Jim Crow policies on the job and in the public sphere between the 1930s and 1950s. In response to lingering questions concerning the relationship between early black ...
    • What Happened to Rosie? 
      Carr|, Jillian Beaugez|Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-02-01)
      Identifying the relationship between wartime work and women’s lifetime outcomes is difficult due to scant work histories from the 1940s. This study identifies “Rosie the Riveters� using data from the 1973 Current ...
    • What Happened to Rosie? 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Carr, Jillian B. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-01-01)