Paul Swaim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1182301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Swaim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Swaim |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIM P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Incidence and Dynamics of Low-Paid Employment in OECD Countries
The widening earnings dispersion which is developing in European labour markets has had the inevitable consequence of worsening the position of the poorer members of society. This book identifies those individual characteristics which affect upward mobility either by increasing or decreasing the probability of individual workers improving their chances of earning higher wages. The authors, including some of the leading labour economists in Europe…
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Econometric analysis of duration data raises difficult issues of statistical inference. Building on the work of Prentice (1974) and Farewell and Prentice (1977), Addison and Portugal (1987; henceforth, AP) use the extended generalized gamma (EGG) distribution to test the sensitivity of regression estimates to more restrictive distributional assumptions which frequently have been imposed by other studies. AP find that these restrictions are reject…
Job Loss and Job Change
All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more restrained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific context of plant closings and relocations, although our …
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
Job Loss and Job Change
All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more restrained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific context of plant closings and relocations, although our …
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Econometric analysis of duration data raises difficult issues of statistical inference. Building on the work of Prentice (1974) and Farewell and Prentice (1977), Addison and Portugal (1987; henceforth, AP) use the extended generalized gamma (EGG) distribution to test the sensitivity of regression estimates to more restrictive distributional assumptions which frequently have been imposed by other studies. AP find that these restrictions are reject…
The Incidence and Dynamics of Low-Paid Employment in OECD Countries
The widening earnings dispersion which is developing in European labour markets has had the inevitable consequence of worsening the position of the poorer members of society. This book identifies those individual characteristics which affect upward mobility either by increasing or decreasing the probability of individual workers improving their chances of earning higher wages. The authors, including some of the leading labour economists in Europe…
Economics (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Unemployment (3 works) · Displaced workers (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Job loss (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)