TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jolls, Christine
TI  - The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10708
PY  - 2004
Y2  - August 2004
DO  - 10.3386/w10708
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10708
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10708.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Christine Jolls
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203/432-1958
Fax: 203/432-4570
E-Mail: christine.jolls@yale.edu
M1  - published as Christine Jolls. "The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws," in Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch and Lawrence Mishel, editors, "Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century" University of Chicago Press (2005)

AB  - Many laws create important rights for today's employees, but the availability of legal representation for employees seeking to enforce those rights is uncertain. The goal of the present paper, part of the Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, is to examine some of the distinctive public-interest legal organizations that exist to help to enforce the employment laws. The chapter focuses on two broad categories of such organizations: 'national issue organizations,' which are organizations that focus on one or more broad-based issues and are funded predominantly by private donations; and legal services organizations, which serve exclusively low-income individuals and are funded primarily by the government.
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