Susan N Houseman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1045649 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan N Houseman |
| NOMBRES | Susan N |
| APELLIDO | Houseman |
| FIRMA | HOUSEMAN S N |
| AFILIACIONES | W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2657-8479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
Making Ends Meet
Data from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking indicate that, over the course of a month, more than one-quarter of adults engage in some informal work outside of a main job. Of these, about two-thirds say that they do informal work to earn money and about one-third say that informal work is an important source of household income. Informal work plays a particularly important role in the household finances of minorities, the less e…
Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Staffing Services
The authors estimate the effects of U.S. manufacturers' use of staffing services on measured employment and labor productivity between 1989 and 2009. Using time series data constructed from the Occupational Employment Statistics program, they document the dramatic increase in manufacturers' use of staffing services to fill core production occupations and to adjust employment levels during recessions. In 2006, just before the recent recession, sta…
Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing
In this paper, we show that the substitution of imported for domestically produced goods and services—often known as offshoring—can lead to overestimates of U.S. productivity growth and value added. We explore how the measurement of productivity and value added in manufacturing has been affected by the dramatic rise in imports of manufactured goods, which more than doubled from 1997 to 2007. We argue that, analogous to the widely discussed proble…
Work to Welfare
Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy
Since 1994, welfare roles have dropped by more than 50 percent nationwide. More than half of these people?about 800,000?have moved into unsubsidized paid employment, yet the very success of welfare reform has brought another problem into stark relief: for many people, getting into work doesn't mean getting out of poverty. In this collection of essays edited by Jobs for the Future's Richard Kazis and Marc Miller, an impressive line-up of experts e…
The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets
The authors use case study evidence from hospitals and auto parts manufacturers to investigate why employers used-and even increased their use of-temporary help agencies during a period of tight labor markets in the 1990s. In high-skill occupations, the evidence suggests employers paid substantially more to agency help than to regular employees in large part to gain additional time to recruit employees for permanent positions and thereby avoid ra…
Working Time in Comparative Perspective - Volume II
The chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under two topics: 1) working time over the life cycle, and 2) nonstandard work arrangements (e.g., temporary work, job sharing and moonlighting).
Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements
Drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments, the author presents new evidence on which employers use flexible staffing arrangements and why they use them. The surveyed employers made widespread use not only of regular part-time workers but also of short-term hires, on-call workers, agency temporaries, and contract workers. Two-thirds expected flexible staffing use to increase in their industry in the near future…
Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility
Job Security in America
American employers rely heavily on layoffs to reduce the size of their work force during downturns. While layoffs are unavoidable in any competitive economy, they are far more common in the United States than in other industrialized countries. But can US workers be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them?. Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in …
Industrial Restructuring with Job Security
How can workers retain job security in an industry currently experiencing extensive restructuring and retrenchment? In the United States, massive layoffs in the 1980s in industries like steel have resulted in increased worker demands for job security provisions in collective agreements and legal protections against layoffs. In many Western European countries, where private-sector practices ensuring strong job security and laws regulating layoff p…
Industrial Restructuring with Job Security
Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements
Drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments, the author presents new evidence on which employers use flexible staffing arrangements and why they use them. The surveyed employers made widespread use not only of regular part-time workers but also of short-term hires, on-call workers, agency temporaries, and contract workers. Two-thirds expected flexible staffing use to increase in their industry in the near future…
The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets
The authors use case study evidence from hospitals and auto parts manufacturers to investigate why employers used-and even increased their use of-temporary help agencies during a period of tight labor markets in the 1990s. In high-skill occupations, the evidence suggests employers paid substantially more to agency help than to regular employees in large part to gain additional time to recruit employees for permanent positions and thereby avoid ra…
Making Ends Meet
Data from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking indicate that, over the course of a month, more than one-quarter of adults engage in some informal work outside of a main job. Of these, about two-thirds say that they do informal work to earn money and about one-third say that informal work is an important source of household income. Informal work plays a particularly important role in the household finances of minorities, the less e…
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Staffing Services
The authors estimate the effects of U.S. manufacturers' use of staffing services on measured employment and labor productivity between 1989 and 2009. Using time series data constructed from the Occupational Employment Statistics program, they document the dramatic increase in manufacturers' use of staffing services to fill core production occupations and to adjust employment levels during recessions. In 2006, just before the recent recession, sta…
Industrial Restructuring with Job Security
Industrial Restructuring with Job Security
Industrial Restructuring with Job Security
How can workers retain job security in an industry currently experiencing extensive restructuring and retrenchment? In the United States, massive layoffs in the 1980s in industries like steel have resulted in increased worker demands for job security provisions in collective agreements and legal protections against layoffs. In many Western European countries, where private-sector practices ensuring strong job security and laws regulating layoff p…
Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility
Job Security in America
American employers rely heavily on layoffs to reduce the size of their work force during downturns. While layoffs are unavoidable in any competitive economy, they are far more common in the United States than in other industrialized countries. But can US workers be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them?. Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in …
Working Time in Comparative Perspective - Volume II
The chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under two topics: 1) working time over the life cycle, and 2) nonstandard work arrangements (e.g., temporary work, job sharing and moonlighting).
Why Employers Use Flexible Staffing Arrangements
Drawing on a nationally representative survey of private sector establishments, the author presents new evidence on which employers use flexible staffing arrangements and why they use them. The surveyed employers made widespread use not only of regular part-time workers but also of short-term hires, on-call workers, agency temporaries, and contract workers. Two-thirds expected flexible staffing use to increase in their industry in the near future…
The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets
The authors use case study evidence from hospitals and auto parts manufacturers to investigate why employers used-and even increased their use of-temporary help agencies during a period of tight labor markets in the 1990s. In high-skill occupations, the evidence suggests employers paid substantially more to agency help than to regular employees in large part to gain additional time to recruit employees for permanent positions and thereby avoid ra…
Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy
Since 1994, welfare roles have dropped by more than 50 percent nationwide. More than half of these people?about 800,000?have moved into unsubsidized paid employment, yet the very success of welfare reform has brought another problem into stark relief: for many people, getting into work doesn't mean getting out of poverty. In this collection of essays edited by Jobs for the Future's Richard Kazis and Marc Miller, an impressive line-up of experts e…
Work to Welfare
Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing
In this paper, we show that the substitution of imported for domestically produced goods and services—often known as offshoring—can lead to overestimates of U.S. productivity growth and value added. We explore how the measurement of productivity and value added in manufacturing has been affected by the dramatic rise in imports of manufactured goods, which more than doubled from 1997 to 2007. We argue that, analogous to the widely discussed proble…
Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Staffing Services
The authors estimate the effects of U.S. manufacturers' use of staffing services on measured employment and labor productivity between 1989 and 2009. Using time series data constructed from the Occupational Employment Statistics program, they document the dramatic increase in manufacturers' use of staffing services to fill core production occupations and to adjust employment levels during recessions. In 2006, just before the recent recession, sta…
Making Ends Meet
Data from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking indicate that, over the course of a month, more than one-quarter of adults engage in some informal work outside of a main job. Of these, about two-thirds say that they do informal work to earn money and about one-third say that informal work is an important source of household income. Informal work plays a particularly important role in the household finances of minorities, the less e…
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
Economics (11 obras) · Business (10 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 obras) · Labour economics (10 obras) · Engineering (8 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 obras) · Work (physics (4 obras) · Work (physics) (4 obras)