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Steve Woodbury researches issues in unemployment, unemployment insurance, and non-wage compensation. He is also a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.

Woodbury is currently conducting research on financing unemployment insurance (for the U.S. Department of Labor) and on the long-term effects of reemployment programs (with Marta Lachowska and Merve Meral).

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Steve Woodbury researches issues in unemployment, unemployment insurance, and non-wage compensation. He is also a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.

Woodbury is currently conducting research on financing unemployment insurance (for the U.S. Department of Labor) and on the long-term effects of reemployment programs (with Marta Lachowska and Merve Meral).

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Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas and Stephen A Woodbury) Journal Articles (2021)

We estimate the magnitudes of reduced earnings, work hours, and wage rates of workers displaced during the Great Recession using linked employer-employee panel data from Washington state. Displaced workers' earnings losses occurred mainly because hourly ...

How Many Americans Have Lost Jobs with Employer Health Coverage During the Pandemic? (Paul Fronstin and Stephen A. Woodbury) External Papers and Reports (2020)

ISSUE: During the COVID-19 pandemic, most states issued lockdown orders that closed many workplaces. The ensuing job losses may have left millions of workers without employer health coverage. GOAL: To estimate how many workers lost ...

Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas and Stephen A. Woodbury) External Papers and Reports (2020)

We estimate the magnitudes of reduced earnings, work hours, and wage rates of workers displaced during the Great Recession using linked employer-employee panel data from Washington State. Displaced workers’ earnings losses occurred mainly because hourly ...

Wage-Rate Subsidies for Dislocated Workers (Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury) Book Chapters (2000)

Wage-Rate Subsidies for Dislocated Workers (Carl Davidson and Stephen A. Woodbury) Book Chapters (1995)

Do Firm Effects Drift? Evidence from Washington Administrative Data (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Journal Articles (2023)

We study the time-series properties of firm effects in the two-way fixed effects model popularized by Abowd et al. (1999) (AKM) using two approaches. The first—the rolling AKM approach (R-AKM)—estimates AKM models separately for successive ...

Work Hours Mismatch (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2023)

This paper uses a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington to document and characterize work-hour constraints. Workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, and there is substantial mismatch between ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining?: A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Employment Research Newsletter (2022)

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining?: A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs (2022)

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Upjohn Institute Working Papers (2022)

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a worker’s secondary ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2022)

We employ a revealed-preference test to distinguish between wage posting and wage bargaining in the labor market. Using a sample of dual jobholders in Washington State, we estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2021)

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a worker’s secondary ...

Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas and Stephen A Woodbury) Journal Articles (2021)

We estimate the magnitudes of reduced earnings, work hours, and wage rates of workers displaced during the Great Recession using linked employer-employee panel data from Washington state. Displaced workers' earnings losses occurred mainly because hourly ...

Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay (Byron W. Brown and Stephen A. Woodbury) Journal Articles (1998)

Power in the Labor Market: Institutionalist Approaches to Labor Problems (Stephen A. Woodbury) Journal Articles (1987)

Technology, Labor Interests and the Law: Some Fundamental Points and Problems (Warren J. Samuels, A. Allan Schmid, James D. Shaffer, et al.) Nova Law Review (1984)

The symposium of which this essay is a part deals with technology and law with particular reference to the interests of workers. Perhaps needless to say but nonetheless important, each of the three topics- technology, ...

Do Firm Effects Drift? Evidence from Washington Administrative Data (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Journal Articles (2023)

We study the time-series properties of firm effects in the two-way fixed effects model popularized by Abowd et al. (1999) (AKM) using two approaches. The first—the rolling AKM approach (R-AKM)—estimates AKM models separately for successive ...

Work Hours Mismatch (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2023)

This paper uses a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington to document and characterize work-hour constraints. Workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, and there is substantial mismatch between ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) Upjohn Institute Working Papers (2022)

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a worker’s secondary ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2022)

We employ a revealed-preference test to distinguish between wage posting and wage bargaining in the labor market. Using a sample of dual jobholders in Washington State, we estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates ...

Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders (Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, et al.) External Papers and Reports (2021)

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We estimate the sensitivity of wages and separation rates to wage shocks in a worker’s secondary ...

Power in the Labor Market: Institutionalist Approaches to Labor Problems (Stephen A. Woodbury) Journal Articles (1987)

Taxes, Fringe Benefits and Faculty (Stephen A. Woodbury and Daniel S. Hamermesh) Journal Articles (1992)

Technology, Labor Interests and the Law: Some Fundamental Points and Problems (Warren J. Samuels, A. Allan Schmid, James D. Shaffer, et al.) Nova Law Review (1984)

The symposium of which this essay is a part deals with technology and law with particular reference to the interests of workers. Perhaps needless to say but nonetheless important, each of the three topics- technology, ...

Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up (Marta Lachowska, Isaac Sorkin and Stephen A Woodbury) Upjohn Institute Working Papers (2022)

We use administrative data to quantify the firm role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. First, there are firm effects in both claiming and appeals, and, consistent with deterrence effects, these are negatively correlated. Second, low-wage ...