NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Labor and Demographic Economics

Demand and Supply of Labor


2009
w15546 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
Sébastien Pérez-Duarte
Ian Schmutte

A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

w15526 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu
Serdar Ozkan

Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

w15522 Ofer Malamud
Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization

w15517 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom
Salal Humair

A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment

w15500 Haizheng Li
Barbara M. Fraumeni
Zhiqiang Liu
Xiaojun Wang

Human Capital In China

w15446 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

w15435 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

w15417 Francesco Giavazzi
Fabio Schiantarelli
Michel Serafinelli

Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

w15395 Courtney Coile
Phillip B. Levine

The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

w15387 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor

w15377 Edward L. Glaeser
William R. Kerr
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

Clusters of Entrepreneurship

w15361 Eric P. Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long
Philip Oreopoulos
Lisa Sanbonmatsu

The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment

w15351 Robert J. Gordon
Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

w15345 Eric V. Edmonds
Norbert Schady

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

w15339 Philip Oreopoulos
Kjell G. Salvanes

How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

w15322 Jeremy T. Fox
Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

w15317 Ning Tang
Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen Utkus

The Efficiency of Sponsor and Participant Portfolio Choices in 401(k) Plans

w15307 Motohiro Yogo
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets

w15291 Scott Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler
Bruce Sacerdote

Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees

w15284 Garey Ramey
Valerie A. Ramey

The Rug Rat Race

w15272 John Bound
Brad Hershbein
Bridget Terry Long

Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition

w15257 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework

w15252 Per Krusell
Toshihiko Mukoyama
Richard Rogerson
Aysegul Sahin

Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

w15251 Per Krusell
Toshihiko Mukoyama
Richard Rogerson
Aysegul Sahin

A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium

w15245 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

w15236 Rashmi Barua
Kevin Lang

School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

w15235 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Adam Gailey
Yuhui Zheng

International Differences in Longevity and Health and their Economic Consequences

w15231 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng
Adam Gailey

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

w15219 Long Chen
Lu Zhang

The stock market and aggregate employment

w15206 Jed Kolko
David Neumark

Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

w15202 C. Kirabo Jackson
Elias Bruegmann

Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers

w15151 John C. Ham
Xianghong Li
Lara Shore-Sheppard

Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women

w15150 David H. Autor
David Dorn

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

w15136 Michael Schwarz
Sergei Severinov

Investment Tournaments: When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket?

w15117 Michael W. L. Elsby
Matthew D. Shapiro

Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

w15116 David H. Autor
Michael J. Handel

Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages

w15108 Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen P. Utkus
Takeshi Yamaguchi

Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

w15107 Avraham Ebenstein
Ann Harrison
Margaret McMillan
Shannon Phillips

Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

w15099 Howard Bodenhorn
Gregory Price

Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15074 Qingyan Shang
Bruce A. Weinberg

Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

w15050 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w14986 Raymond B. Palmquist
Daniel J. Phaneuf
V. Kerry Smith

Short Run Constraints and the Increasing Marginal Value of Time in Recreation

w14974 Dahlia K. Remler
Elda Pema

Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?

w14966 Jesse Rothstein
Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

w14962 Richard B. Freeman
What Does Global Expansion of Higher Education Mean for the US?

w14959 Scott E. Carrell
Marianne E. Page
James E. West

Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap

w14951 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools

w14900 Francesca Mazzolari
David Neumark

Beyond Wages: The Effects of Immigration on the Scale and Composition of Output

w14884 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

w14879 Meta Brown
John Karl Scholz
Ananth Seshadri

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education

w14873 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Gender Roles and Medical Progress

w14836 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients

w14822 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski

The Rise of the Service Economy

w14820 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe

w14810 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

w14805 Katharine G. Abraham
John C. Haltiwanger
Kristin Sandusky
James Spletzer

Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

w14800 Chulhee Lee
Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea: 1955-2005

w14796 George J. Borjas
The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

w14789 Richard B. Freeman
Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries: Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14776 Marc-Andreas Muendler
Sascha O. Becker

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14768 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

w14746 Chulhee Lee
Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America

w14740 Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

w14729 Casey Mulligan
What Caused the Recession of 2008? Hints from Labor Productivity

w14713 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
Huub Meijers

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

w14681 Marianne Bertrand
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

w14676 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

w14672 Arnaud Costinot
Jonathan Vogel

Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

w14667 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin S. Milligan

Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada

w14660 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
Elizabeth Washbrook

Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

w14652 David Autor
David Dorn

This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

w14647 Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

w14644 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006


2008
w14570 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

w14568 Sherry A. Glied
Ashwin Prabhu
Norman H. Edelman

The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

w14566 Ana Rute Cardoso
Daniel S. Hamermesh
José Varejão

The Timing of Labor Demand

w14540 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif

Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

w14530 David Neumark
Jed Kolko

Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14514 Casey B. Mulligan
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance

w14484 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Luddites and the Demographic Transition

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14462 Dora L. Costa
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

w14454 Matteo Bugamelli
Fabiano Schivardi
Roberta Zizza

The Euro and Firm Restructuring

w14442 Jesse Rothstein
Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement

w14435 Tracy A. Falba
William T. Gallo
Jody L. Sindelar

Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

w14415 Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman
Analia Schlosser

Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom

w14407 Edward L. Glaeser
William R. Kerr

Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

w14400 Richard Rogerson
Market Work, Home Work and Taxes: A Cross Country Analysis

w14388 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Kerry L. Papps

The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

w14387 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Kerry L. Papps

Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000

w14385 Bruce Sacerdote
When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees

w14370 Enrico Moretti
Real Wage Inequality

w14367 Bridget Terry Long
Michal Kurlaender

Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14340 Isaac Ehrlich
William A. Hamlen Jr.
Yong Yin

Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets

w14332 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints

w14328 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

w14314 Donald Boyd
Pamela Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement

w14303 Alan Gerber
Jonathan Gruber
Daniel M. Hungerman

Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

w14293 Adriana Kugler
Mutlu Yuksel

Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

w14265 Melissa Clark
Jesse Rothstein
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores

w14246 Scott E. Carrell
Mark L. Hoekstra

Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids

w14232 Lauren Cohen
Andrea Frazzini
Christopher Malloy

Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors

w14216 Rupert Harrison
Jordi Jaumandreu
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

w14208 Miles S. Kimball
Matthew D. Shapiro

Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?

w14203 David Albouy
The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000

w14194 Juan Carlos Calcagno
Bridget Terry Long

The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance

w14192 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Lisa Kahn
Steven D. Levitt
Jörg L. Spenkuch

The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

w14174 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Steven M. Ewer
Todd H. Wagner

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

w14155 Ofer Malamud
Cristian Pop-Eleches

General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition

w14138 Benjamin F. Jones
The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14065 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren
David Sims

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

w14055 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

w14052 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

w14021 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
Jonah Rockoff
James Wyckoff

The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

w14038 Jordan D. Matsudaira
Rebecca M. Blank

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

w14037 Trevon D. Logan
Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

w14022 Donald Boyd
Pam Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

w14014 Anders Björklund
Richard Freeman

Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

w13997 John Cawley
C. Katharina Spiess

Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

w14006 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance

w13996 Mirko Draca
Stephen Machin
John Van Reenen

Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

w13993 Jonathan Guryan
Erik Hurst
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

w13987 Janet Currie
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

w13985 Valerie A. Ramey
Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data

w13982 Robert J. Gordon
Ian Dew-Becker

Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

w13951 Peter Arcidiacono
Patrick Bayer
Aurel Hizmo

Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

w13949 Patrick Bayer
Shakeeb Khan
Christopher Timmins

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model

w13931 Orazio Attanasio
Adriana Kugler
Costas Meghir

Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13929 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

w13923 Muriel Niederle
Carmit Segal
Lise Vesterlund

How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

w13922 Muriel Niederle
Alexandra H. Yestrumskas

Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

w13920 John Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Helena Schweiger

Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations

w13911 Francesco Giavazzi
Michael McMahon

Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings

w13872 Richard Rogerson
Lodewijk P. Visschers
Randall Wright

Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large

w13871 Per Krusell
Toshihiko Mukoyama
Richard Rogerson
Aysegul Sahin

Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Frictions

w13868 Jonah E. Rockoff
Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

w13847 Jason M. Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

w13844 Raj Chetty
Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance

w13840 Ian Dew-Becker
Robert J. Gordon

The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

w13837 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

The Increase in Leisure Inequality

w13826 Michael Baker
Kevin Milligan

Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

w13818 David Neumark
Brandon Wall
Junfu Zhang

Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

w13810 Lex Borghans
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Bas ter Weel

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

w13789 Erik Hurst
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle

w13773 Anna Aizer
Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth

w13784 Radha Iyengar
I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws

w13772 Fernando Alvarez
Robert Shimer

Search and Rest Unemployment

w13726 Julia Coronado
Olivia S. Mitchell
Steven A. Sharpe
S. Blake Nesbitt

Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values

w13717 Kaivan Munshi
Nicholas Wilson

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest


2007
w13707 Matthias Doepke
Moshe Hazan
Yishay Maoz

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

w13697 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

w13673 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

w13663 Elizabeth Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function

w13656 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

w13654 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms

w13653 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

w13652 Kathryn Shaw
Edward P. Lazear

Tenure and Output

w13651 Ann Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw
Ricardo Correa

International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.

w13638 Alberto Alesina
Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

w13633 Boris Groysberg
Ashish Nanda
M. Julia Prats

Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market

w13630 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

A Theory of Retirement

w13609 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w13674 Andreas Hornstein
Per Krusell
Giovanni L. Violante

Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment

w13657 John Bound
Todd Stinebrickner
Timothy Waidmann

Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men

w13603 Gary D. Hansen
Selo Imrohoroglu

Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation?

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13594 Raymond B. Palmquist
Daniel J. Phaneuf
V. Kerry Smith

Measuring the Values for Time

w13589 Joseph Kaboski
Trevon D. Logan

Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past

w13583 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

w13568 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal
Tom Vogl

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13536 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
James Banks

Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

w13534 Robert Moffitt
Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK

w13533 Ernesto F. L. Amaral
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joseph E. Potter
Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto

Demographic Change and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil

w13527 Philippe Belley
Lance Lochner

The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

w13523 Thomas Lemieux
The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality

w13514 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

w13503 Edgar Cudmore
John Piggott
John Whalley

Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time

w13476 John B. Shoven
New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP

w13442 Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood

Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

w13437 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

w13422 Jonathan Guryan
Kory Kroft
Matt Notowidigdo

Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments

w13411 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen

Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13384 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Hongbin Li
Junsen Zhang

Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

w13383 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer

w13379 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

w13375 Hanming Fang
Dan Silverman

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

w13373 Raquel Fernandez
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

w13356 Raegen T. Miller
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

w13351 Giulia Faggio
Kjell Salvanes
John Van Reenen

The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13344 Josef Fersterer
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

w13341 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance

w13340 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

w13336 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

w13296 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

w13275 David Card
Michael Ransom

Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

w13229 Kristin F. Butcher
Anne Morrison Piehl

Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation

w13215 James B. Bushnell
Catherine Wolfram

The Guy at the Controls: Labor Quality and Power Plant Efficiency

w13195 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

w13179 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Gender Roles and Technological Progress

w13156 Lisa M. Lynch
The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

w13139 Donald R. Davis
James Harrigan

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

w13127 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen Donald

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

w13117 Jesse Rothstein
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

w13116 Sandra E. Black
Alexandra Spitz-Oener

Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

w13110 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers

w13096 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu

Understanding the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: A Theoretical Analysis

w13095 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu

A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000

w13059 Andrew A. Samwick
Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security

w13057 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

w13043 John M. Abowd
John Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
Kevin L. McKinney
Kristin Sandusky

Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

w13029 Bruno Contini
Roberto Leombruni
Lia Pacelli
Claudia Villosio

Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's

w13027 Alan B. Krueger
David A. Schkade

The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

w13022 Jacob L. Vigdor
The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

w13017 Richard Rogerson
Johanna Wallenius

Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes

w13014 Jonathan B. Berk
Richard Stanton
Josef Zechner

Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure

w13012 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

w13007 Lei Fang
Richard Rogerson

Policy Analysis in a Matching Model with Intensive and Extensive Margins

w13000 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Philippe Weil

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

w12997 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy

Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

w12989 Paul Oyer
Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market

w12985 Anders Bjorklund
Markus Jantti
Gary Solon

Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

w12984 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

w12980 Marc-Andreas Muendler
Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil

w12978 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
Francois Rycx

Wage Structure and Firm Productivity in Belgium

w12975 Colleen N. Flaherty
The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis

w12958 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

w12942 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12926 Eric V. Edmonds
Child Labor

w12917 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

w12915 David Neumark
William Wascher

Does a Higher Minimum Wage Enhance the Effectiveness of The Earned Income Tax Credit?

w12910 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi

Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers

w12908 Shelly Lundberg
Robert A. Pollak

The American Family and Family Economics

w12900 Sukkoo Kim
Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

w12891 Lei Fang
Richard Rogerson

Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis

w12890 Richard Rogerson
Taxation and Market Work: Is Scandinavia an Outlier?

w12889 Richard Rogerson
Structural Transformation and the Deterioration of European Labor Market Outcomes

w12888 Raquel Fernandez
Women, Work, and Culture

w12883 David Card
Pablo Ibarraran
Ferdinando Regalia
David Rosas
Yuri Soares

The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

w12860 David H. Autor
William R. Kerr
Adriana D. Kugler

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

w12846 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg

Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

w12844 Bruce A. Weinberg
Belton M. Fleisher
Masanori Hashimoto

Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12838 Bruno L. S. Falcao
Rodrigo R. Soares

The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

w12815 Luis Garicano
Thomas N. Hubbard

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies


2006
w12799 Desiree van Welsum
Xavier Reif

We Can Work It Out - The Globalisation of ICT-enabled Services

w12790 Joshua Angrist
Daniel Lang
Philip Oreopoulos

Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink: An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

w12786 Lee Ohanian
Andrea Raffo
Richard Rogerson

Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004

w12768 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

w12762 Beth J. Soldo
Olivia S. Mitchell
Rania Tfaily
John F. McCabe

Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement

w12757 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

w12737 Eric A. Hanushek
Victor Lavy
Kohtaro Hitomi

Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

w12694 Markus Mobius
Raphael Schoenle

The Evolution of Work

w12693 Keith A. Bender
John S. Heywood

Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.s: Determinants and Consequences

w12688 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

w12664 Eric A. Hanushek
Lei Zhang

Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

w12663 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wages and Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research

w12652 Eliot A. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison
Eric A. Hanushek

The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

w12621 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Rick Mansfield
Michael Moore

Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

w12619 Omar Galarraga
David S. Salkever
Judith A. Cook
Stephen J. Gange

An Instrumental Variable Evaluation of Antidepressant Use on Employment Among HIV-Infected Women Using Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: 1996-2004

w12597 James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise

Defined Contribution Plans, Defined Benefit Plans, and the Accumulation of Retirement Wealth

w12569 David Joulfaian
Inheritance and Saving

w12559 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?

t0328 Katharine G. Abraham
Aaron Maitland
Suzanne M. Bianchi

Non-response in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter?

w12529 Pinka Chatterji
Jeffrey DeSimone

High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

w12518 George J. Borjas
Jeffrey Grogger
Gordon H. Hanson

Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks

w12498 Mark Gertler
Antonella Trigari

Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

w12467 Raj Chetty
Adam Szeidl

Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences

w12464 Kevin Lang
Erez Siniver

The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

w12452 Louis Kaplow
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

w12444 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Michael Sherris
Shaun Yow

Financial Innovation for an Aging World

w12440 Susana Iranzo
Giovanni Peri

Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States

w12436 David Autor
Mark Duggan

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

w12435 Fredrik Andersson
Matthew Freedman
John C. Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
Kathryn L. Shaw

Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?

w12421 Morten O. Ravn
The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle

w12417 Adam Looney
Monica Singhal

The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income

w12416 Chulhee Lee
Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

w12410 Jonathan Gruber
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Church vs the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?

w12396 Dean Yang
Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence From Philippine Migrants%u2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

w12387 Christopher S. Ruebeck
Joseph E. Harrington
Jr.
Robert Moffitt

Handedness and Earnings

w12386 Jeffrey R. Brown
Courtney C. Coile
Scott J. Weisbenner

The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement

w12358 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

w12350 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Mark L. Pocock

Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman

w12329 Justin McCrary
Heather Royer

The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

w12325 Dean Yang
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

w12298 Eric I. Knudsen
James J. Heckman
Judy L. Cameron
Jack P. Shonkoff

Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

w12291 John Cawley
Richard V. Burkhauser

Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

w12287 Reuben Gronau
Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia

w12282 Erica Field
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School

w12278 Emre Ozdenoren
Stephen Salant
Dan Silverman

Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges

w12245 E. Han Kim
Adair Morse
Luigi Zingales

Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

w12237 Rena M. Conti
Ernst R. Berndt
Richard G. Frank

Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

w12221 Susumu Imai
Hajime Katayama
Kala Krishna

Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity

w12212 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations

w12180 Andreas Ammermueller
Jörn-Steffen Pischke

Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

w12179 Elizabeth Cascio
Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

w12139 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap

w12167 Steven J. Davis
R. Jason Faberman
John Haltiwanger

The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links

w12157 Paul Oyer
The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists

w12085 George J. Borjas
Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates

w12082 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades

w12078 David Card
Jesse Rothstein

Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w12071 Fali Huang
Peter Cappelli

Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence

w12067 Raj Chetty
A Bound on Risk Aversion Using Labor Supply Elasticities

w12063 Uri Gneezy
John A. List

Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

w12057 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

Some Answers to the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle

w12029 Christopher Avery
Caroline Hoxby
Clement Jackson
Kaitlin Burek
Glenn Pope
Mridula Raman

Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative

w12021 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro

Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study

w12019 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Ugly Criminals

w12005 Joshua Angrist
Aimee Chin
Ricardo Godoy

Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

w12003 Jeffrey R. Kling
Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

w12002 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Time to Eat: Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality

w11985 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg

People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

w11970 Christiana Stoddard
Peter Kuhn

Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

w11969 Victor Lavy
From Forced Busing to Free Choice in Public Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Individual and General Effects

w11968 V. Joseph Hotz
John Karl Scholz

Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare

w11953 Claudia Goldin
The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

w11951 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Sabina Ohri

Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly

w11934 W. Kip Viscusi
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

w11932 Peter Kuhn
Chris Riddell

The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

w11918 David Card
Brian P. McCall

When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System


2005
w11902 Philip J. Cook
Bethany Peters

The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

w11895 Peter Kuhn
Fernando Lozano

The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

w11871 Harsha Thirumurthy
Joshua Graff-Zivin
Markus Goldstein

The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

w11855 David Neumark
Peter S. Barth
Richard Victor

The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes

w11837 Dan T. Rosenbaum
Christopher J. Ruhm

The Cost of Caring for Young Children

w11836 Chulhee Lee
Rising Family Income Inequality in the United States, 1968-2000: Impacts of Changing Labor Supply, Wages, and Family Structure

w11832 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well-Being

w11811 Mark Duggan
Perry Singleton
Jae Song

Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls

w11799 Bruce A. Weinberg
David W. Galenson

Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics

w11782 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Stephen Ciccarella

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

w11773 Ann P. Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn L. Shaw

How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills

w11729 Nada Eissa
Hilary Hoynes

Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

w11746 Ricardo Reis
A Dynamic Measure of Inflation

w11743 David H. Autor
Susan Houseman

Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'

w11742 David Autor
Susan Houseman

Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

w11726 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Utkus
Tongxuan (Stella) Yang

Turning Workers into Savers? Incentives, Liquidity, and Choice in 401(k) Plan Design

w11693 Joseph G. Altonji
Emiko Usui

Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave

w11681 Hilary Hoynes
Marianne Page
Ann Stevens

Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

w11679 Steven J. Davis
Luis Rivera-Batiz

The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

w11659 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Christopher Woock
James P. Ziliak

How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life

w11647 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Brandon Wall

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

w11636 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein

Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

w11629 Jeremy Greenwood
Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Hours Worked: Long-Run Trends

w11626 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

w11615 Jesse M. Shapiro
Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital

w11601 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Lifecycle Prices and Production

w11566 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joel Slemrod

The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

w11558 James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States

w11546 Rasmus Lentz
Dale T. Mortensen

An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

w11530 Bruce Sacerdote
David Marmaros

How Do Friendships Form?

w11527 Robert Fairlie
Christopher Woodruff

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

w11512 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

w11497 Marie Thursby
Jerry Thursby
Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee

Are There Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View

w11453 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

w11416 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia

w11414 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Till von Wachter

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

w11404 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen
Peter K. Schott

Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

w11360 Benjamin F. Jones
The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?

w11359 Benjamin F. Jones
Age and Great Invention

w11356 Daron Acemoglu
Pol Antràs
Elhanan Helpman

Contracts and the Division of Labor

w11350 Antonio Geldson de Carvalho
Charles W. Calomiris
Joao Amaro de Matos

Venture Capital as Human Resource Management

w11328 Gordon B. Dahl
Early Teen Marriage and Future Poverty

w11304 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Zhehui Luo
Heather L. Bednarek

Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

w11271 Ivica Dus
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities

w11268 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli

Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

w11260 Frank F. Furstenberg
Jr.
David Neumark

School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

w11239 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

w11238 Erdal Tekin
Sara Markowitz

Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

w11230 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

w11159 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975

w11142 James J. Heckman
Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

w11113 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ethan G. Lewis

Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

w11031 Lalith Munasinghe
Nachum Sicherman

Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity: Time Preference of Learning Ability?


2004
w11013 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

w10980 Kathleen Beegle
Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

w10935 Nada Eissa
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Claus Thustrup Kreiner

Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers

w10919 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving

w10911 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereaux
Kjell Salvanes

Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

w10905 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The social Security Retirement Earnings Test, Retirement and Benefit Claiming

w10892 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

w10876 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement

w10844 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w10810 Courtney C. Coile
Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions

w10779 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Bulls, Bears, and Retirement Behavior

w10777 Jeffrey R. Kling
Jens Ludwig
Lawrence F. Katz

Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

w10772 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

w10748 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Matthew F. Mitchell
Andrea Moro

Why Do Incumbent Senators Win? Evidence from a Dynamic Selection Model

w10744 Ricardo J. Caballero
Kevin N. Cowan
Eduardo M.R.A. Engel
Alejandro Micco

Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

w10740 Christine Jolls
J.J. Prescott

Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination

w10739 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren
Enrico Moretti

The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks

w10728 Aimee Chin
Chinhui Juhn
Peter Thompson

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

w10678 Victor Lavy
Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls' Human Capital Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w10656 David Neumark
Olena Nizalova

Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run

w10622 Victor Lavy
Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics

w10598 John DiNardo
David S. Lee

Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001

w10589 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli
Claudia Olivetti

Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII

w10576 Barry Eichengreen
Pipat Luengnaruemitchai

Why Doesn't Asia Have Bigger Bond Markets?

w10575 Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers: Costs and Benefits

w10562 Scott Adams
David Neumark

The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Provisional Review

w10561 Scott Adams
David Neumark

When Do Living Wages Bite?

w10542 Sean Nicholson
How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?

w10531 Steven G. Allen
The Value of Phased Retirement

w10478 Lance Lochner
Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach

w10469 Gadi Barlevy
Daniel Tsiddon

Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

w10442 Maria Borga
Robert E. Lipsey

Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

w10398 Ricardo J. Caballlero
Eduardo Engel
Alejandro Micco

Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

w10368 Ricardo J. Caballero
Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

Three Strikes and You're Out: Reply to Cooper and Willis

w10347 Dirk Krueger
Jessica Tjornhom Donohue

On the Distributional Consequences of Child Labor Legislation

w10320 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

Household vs. Personal Accounts of the U.S. Labor Market, 1965-2000

w10305 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Personal Accounts and Family Retirement

w10302 Sebastian Edwards
The Economics of Latin American Art: Creativity Patterns and Rates of Return

w10297 Russel W. Cooper
John C. Haltiwanger
Jonathan Willis

Dynamics of Labor Demand: Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications

w10283 Jeremy Lise
Shannon Seitz
Jeffrey Smith

Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

w10265 Eric V. Edmonds
Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Household Responses to Anticipated Cash Transfers in South Africa

w10247 Christopher J. Ruhm
How Well Do Parents With Young Children Combine Work and Family Life


2003
w10186 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jungmin Lee

Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

w10185 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Pension Knowledge and Retirement Decision Making

w10139 Don Fullerton
Li Gan

A Simulation-Based Welfare Loss Calculation for Labor Taxes with Piecewise-Linear Budgets

w10138 Edgar Cudmore
John Whalley

Regeneration, Labour Supply and the Welfare Costs of Taxes

w10134 Eric V. Edmonds
Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?

w10122 Rajeev Dehejia
Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Timing of Births: Is the Health of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

w10100 David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie

The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men

w10098 Erik Hurst
Grasshoppers, Ants, and Pre-Retirement Wealth: A Test of Permanent Income

w10088 Kathleen Beegle
Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

w10077 Mauricio Cardenas
Raquel Bernal

Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia: 1976-1996

w10060 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein

School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education

w10030 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security

w10006 Russell W. Cooper
Jonathan Willis

The Cost of Labor Adjustment: Inferences from the Gap

w9999 Leora Friedberg
Anthony Webb

Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure

w9987 Ann Bartel
Richard Freeman
Casey Ichniowski
Morris M. Kleiner

Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

w9964 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Year

w9953 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb

The Draw of Home: How Teachers' Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools

w9918 Hope Corman
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Kelly Noonan

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w9878 Donald Boyd
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w9850 Claudio Montenegro
Carmen Pages

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w9818 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

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w9785 Jan Boone
Lans Bovenberg

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w9779 Steven G. Allen
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Linda S. Ghent

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w9702 Scott Adams
David Neumark

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Rajeev Dehejia

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w9586 Michael Hurd
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w9576 John Van Reenen
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w9550 Chulhee Lee
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w9496 Courtney Coile
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions

w9489 Magnus Blomstrom
Ari Kokko

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w9484 Hiroshi Ono
Marcus E. Rebick

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w9476 Amitabh Chandra
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w9440 Daniel S. Hamermesh
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w9429 Bradley T. Heim
Bruce D. Meyer

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w9425 David H. Autor
John J. Donohue III
Stewart J. Schwab

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws


2002
w9404 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble

w9400 Susan Dynarski
The Consequences of Merit Aid

w9396 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

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w9366 Mark Hugget
Gustavo Ventura
Amir Yaron

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w9357 Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Christopher J. Ruhm

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

w9317 Kathleen McGarry
Health and Retirement: Do Changes in Health Affect Retirement Expectations?

w9254 Richard B. Freeman
The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

w9231 Charles H. Mullin
Ping Wang

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w9225 Peter Cappelli
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w9183 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

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w9180 Sean P. Corcoran
William N. Evans
Robert S. Schwab

Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992

w9168 Robert Moffitt
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w9165 Rafael Di Tella
Raymond Fisman

Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

w9140 Michael D. Hurd
James P. Smith
Julie M. Zissimopoulos

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w9139 Frank R. Lichtenberg
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w9120 Lucia Foster
John Haltiwanger
C.J. Krizan

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w9119 Wayne B. Gray
John Mendeloff

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w9083 James Heckman
Lance Lochner
Ricardo Cossa

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w9074 Alan B. Krueger
Jitka Maleckova

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w9051 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Joan Y. Moriarty
Andre Portela Souza

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w9045 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

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w9043 Giuseppe Bertola
Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

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w9025 Peter Arcidiacono
Sean Nicholson

Peer Effects in Medical School

w9018 Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries

w9014 Alan B. Krueger
Bruce D. Meyer

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w9013 Daron Acemoglu
David H. Autor
David Lyle

Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century

w8993 John DiNardo
David S. Lee

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w8915 Claudia Goldin
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w8907 Sean Nicholson
Nicholas S. Souleles

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w8849 Robert E. Hall
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w8811 Daniel Nagin
James Rebitzer
Seth Sanders
Lowell Taylor

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w8780 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

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w8772 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family


2001
w8658 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs

w8574 Thomas DeLeire
Helen Levy

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work

w8541 Robert Kaestner
Neeraj Kaushal

Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

w8509 Reuben Gronau
Daniel S. Hamermesh

The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

w8434 Steven J. Davis
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w8419 Michael Baker
Mark Stabile
Catherine Deri

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w8412 James R. Hines Jr.
Hilary W. Hoynes
Alan B. Krueger

Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

w8406 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Saving

w8378 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card

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w8376 Luis Garicano
Ignacio Palacios
Canice Prendergast

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w8337 David H. Autor
Frank Levy
Richard J. Murnane

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w8306 Brent Boning
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw

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w8297 Leora Friedberg
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w8295 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998

w8273 Gerard A. Pfann
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Displacement

w8260 Melvin Stephens Jr.
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w8239 Claudia Goldin
The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past

w8229 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

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w8159 Casey B. Mulligan
Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor

w8134 Cathy J. Bradley
Heather Bednarek
David Neumark

Breast Cancer Survival, Work, and Earnings


2000
w8051 Linda A. Bell
Richard B. Freeman

The Incentive for Working Hard: Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

w7994 John Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
James Spletzer

Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers

t0265 Casey B. Mulligan
Barbara Schneider
Rurtin Wolfe

Time Use and Population Representation in the Sloan Study of Adolescents

w7980 Robert Carroll
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Mark Rider
Harvey S. Rosen

Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms

w7977 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

w7975 John Bound
Timothy Waidmann

Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

w7963 Olivia S. Mitchell
John W.R. Phillips

Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions

w7923 Jonathan Gruber
Peter Orszag

Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

w7834 Jarle Møen
Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?

w7830 Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and Retirement

w5622 Thomas Dunn
Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment:Evidence from Intergenerational Links

w7756 Susan Dynarski
Hope for Whom? Financial Aid for the Middle Class and Its Impact on College Attendance

w7742 Peter Cappelli
Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance

w7730 K.C. O'Shaughnessy
David I. Levine
Peter Cappelli

Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill

w7709 Jeff Grogger
Time Limits and Welfare Use

w7680 Casey B. Mulligan
Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

w7679 Casey B. Mulligan
Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage

w7678 Song Han
Casey B. Mulligan

Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility

w7655 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

w7619 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Harvey S. Rosen
Robert Weathers

Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables

w7608 Dora L. Costa
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

w7606 David Neumark
Scott Adams

Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?

w7591 Alan B. Krueger
Mikael Lindahl

Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?

w7584 H. Naci Mocan
Stephen C. Billups
Jody Overland

A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity

w7561 Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer

The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

w7557 David H. Autor
Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

w7542 Lalith Munasinghe
Nachum Sicherman

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w7502 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

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w7487 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

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w7486 David G. Blanchflower
Self-Employment in OECD Countries

w7479 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

w7474 Richard B. Freeman
Ronald Schettkat

The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

w7467 Ann P. Bartel
Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector: The Case of Bank Branches

w7456 Alan B. Krueger
From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

w7455 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Togetherness: Spouses' Synchronous Leisure, and the Impact of Children


1999
w7452 John Bound
Sarah E. Turner

Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

w7427 Marcello M. Estevao
Saul Lach

The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

w7422 Susan M. Dynarski
Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion

w7421 Marcello Estevao
Saul Lach

Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing

w7415 Andrea Ichino
Giovanni Maggi

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

w7383 Stephen L. Mehay
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?

w7367 Emmanuel Saez
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w7357 Robert E. Lipsey
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w7344 Michael Hout
Harvey S. Rosen

Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

w7322 Stacy Berg Dale
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

w7314 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

Pre-Retirement Cashouts and Foregone Retirement Saving: Implications for 401(k) Asset Accumulation

w7299 David Neumark
William Wascher

A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

w5107 Ann P. Bartel
Nachum Sicherman

Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers

w7274 David N. Figlio
Bruce A. Blonigen

The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Local Communities

w7217 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies

w7191 Jeffrey R. Brown
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w7188 Hilary Hoynes
The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

w7184 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training

w7172 Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
John H. Tyler

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w7168 Amy Finkelstein
James Poterba

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w7138 Michael Baker
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w7136 Timothy F. Bresnahan
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lorin M. Hitt

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w7126 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

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w7122 David W. Galenson
Bruce A. Weinberg

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w5523 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Peter J. Hurst

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w6998 Rebecca M. Blank
David Card
Philip K. Robins

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w6996 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
David N. Margolis

Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

w6295 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

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w6983 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

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w6943 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

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w6941 Mark A. Hooker
Michael M. Knetter

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w6920 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

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w6900 Marianne Bertrand
From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

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The Lives of the Painters of Modern Life: The Careers of Artists in France from Impressionism to Cubism


1998
w6854 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Changing Pensions in Cross-Section and Panel Data: Analysis with Employer Provided Plan Descriptions

w6816 Magnus Blomstrom
Fredrik Sjoholm

Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

w6780 Axel Borsch-Supan
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w6777 John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum
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Timothy Waidmann

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w6769 Karen Norberg
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w6740 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

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Gary Solon

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w6718 Thomas Lemieux
David Card

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w6670 Daron Acemoglu
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w6662 Derek Neal
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w6651 David Neumark
William Wascher

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w6621 Robert A. Moffitt
Mark Wilhelm

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w6613 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Crime and the Timing of Work

w6585 Casey B. Mulligan
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w6534 Andrew A. Samwick
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w6515 Daniel S. Hamermesh
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w6504 Dora L. Costa
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w6503 Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Olivia S. Mitchell

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w6478 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

w6419 Dora L. Costa
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t0219 Michael D. Hurd
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Alan B. Krueger

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Lance Lochner
Christopher Taber

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w6378 Derek Neal
Sherwin Rosen

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w6357 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training


1997
w6331 David W. Galenson
The Careers of Modern Artists: Evidence from Auctions of Contemporary Paintings

w6330 David Neumark
Daniel Polsky
Daniel Hansen

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w6316 Olivia S. Mitchell
Flavio Ataliba Barreto

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w6308 Jonathan Gruber
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w6246 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

w6212 Wolfgang Franz
Joachim Inkmann
Winfried Pohlmeier
Volker Zimmermann

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Gunnar Fors
Robert E. Lipsey

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w6198 Jong-Wha Lee
Robert J. Barro

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w6195 Daniel S. Hamermesh
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w6171 Kathleen McGarry
Andrew Davenport

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w6146 Alan B. Krueger
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

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w6120 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

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w6111 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
Thomas Lemieux
David N. Margolis

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w6097 Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber

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w6051 Alan B. Krueger
Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions

w6031 Sanders Korenman
David Neumark

Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets: A Cross-National Analysis

w5989 Susan L. Ettner
Richard G. Frank
Ronald C. Kessler

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w5983 Jeff Grogger
Market Wages and Youth Crime

w5973 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen J. Trejo

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w5959 David A. Riker
S. Lael Brainard

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w5958 S. Lael Brainard
David A. Riker

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w5948 David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie

Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s

w5941 Ann P. Bartel
Nachum Sicherman

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w5927 David Card
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w5912 Alan L. Gustman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Andrew A. Samwick
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study

w5903 Claudia Goldin
Cecilia Rouse

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w5899 Rosella Gardecki
David Neumark

Order from Chaos? The Effects of Early Labor Market Experiences on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

w5888 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement


1996
w5866 Jonathan Gruber
Disability Insurance Benefits and Labor Supply

w5855 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Timing of Work Time Over Time

w5837 Rachel M. Friedberg
You Can't Take It With You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital

w5835 John Bound
David A. Jaeger

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w5829 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Continuous Training in Germany

w5803 Edward E. Leamer
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w5778 Joshua D. Angrist
William N. Evans

Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

w5724 Jennifer Hunt
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w5708 David Card
Alan Krueger

School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina

w5656 Timothy Dunne
John Haltiwanger
Kenneth R. Troske

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w5647 Jaisri Gangadharan
Joshua Rosenbloom
Joyce Jacobson
James Wishart Pearre III

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w5645 John Cawley
Karen Conneely
James Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

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w5644 Hilary Williamson Hoynes
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w5643 Hilary Williamson Hoynes
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w5631 David Neumark
William Wascher

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w5626 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth R. Troske

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w5616 William Lehr
Frank R. Lichtenberg

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w5613 Dominic J. Brewer
Eric Eide
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

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w5605 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

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w5601 Frank R. Lichtenberg
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w5567 William N. Evans
Matthew C. Farrelly
Edward Montgomery

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w4929 Dora L. Costa
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w5551 John M. Abowd
Patrick Corbel
Francis Kramarz

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w5536 John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum
Timothy Waidmann

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w3926 Frank R. Lichtenberg
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w5492 Edward Montgomery
John Navin

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w5459 Chinhui Juhn
Kevin M. Murphy

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w5426 Zvi Griliches
Education, Human Capital, and Growth: A Personal Perspective


1995
w5353 Derek Neal
The Effect of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Attainment

w5302 Alan Krueger
Douglas Kruse

Labor Market Effects of Spinal Cord Injuries in the Dawn of the Computer Age

w5291 William A. Brock
Steven N. Durlauf

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w5287 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

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w5237 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

w5236 Chinhui Juhn
Dae Il Kim

The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages

w5231 Lisa M. Lynch
Sandra E. Black

Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

w5224 David Neumark
William Wascher

The Effect of New Jersey's Minimum Wage Increase on Fast-Food Employ- ment: A Re-Evaluation Using Payroll Records

w5223 Robin L. Lumsdaine
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w5222 Geoffrey Carliner
The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants: Assimilation and Cohort Effects

w5208 Daniel S. Hamermesh
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w4199 Leslie E. Papke
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w5190 Robin L. Lumsdaine
James H. Stock
David A. Wise

Why are Retirement Rates So High at Age 65?

w5188 Claudia Goldin
Career and Family: College Women Look to the Past

w5169 Mary C. Daly
John Bound

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w4537 Dora L. Costa
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

w4334 Assaf Razin
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w5159 John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum
Timothy Waidmann

Race and Education Differences in Disability Status and Labor Force Attachment

w4394 Daniel S. Hamermesh
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w4874 Brandice J. Canes
Harvey S. Rosen

Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition

w5072 Joseph G. Altonji
Thomas A. Dunn

The Effects of School and Family Characteristics on the Return to Education

w5058 David Card
Brian P. McCall

Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence fromthe `Monday Effect'

w5030 Christopher J. Ruhm
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w5024 David Neumark
Roy J. Bank
Kyle D. Van Nort

Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study


1994
w4968 Christina H. Paxson
Nachum Sicherman

The Dynamics of Dual-Job Holding and Job Mobility

w4950 Joseph G. Altonji
Thomas A. Dunn

An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours and Earnings

w4941 Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey D. Kubik

Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers

w4925 Christopher J. Ruhm
Do Pensions Increase the Labor Supply of Older Men?

w4911 Rebecca M. Blank
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work

w4825 Jennifer Hunt
Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment: An Examination of Germany

w4823 Boyan Jovanovic
Yaw Nyarko

The Transfer of Human Capital

w4813 Alan L. Gustman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

w4255 Eli Berman
John Bound
Zvi Griliches

Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S. Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing

w4794 Ann Dryden Witte
Helen Tauchen

Work and Crime: An Exploration Using Panel Data

w4791 Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer

The Ethnic and Racial Character of Self-Employment

w4773 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Policy Transferability and Hysteresis: Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US

w4762 Claudia Goldin
How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960

h0057 Claudia Goldin
Appendix to: "How America Graduated from High School, 1910 to 1960", Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data

w4729 Jill Constantine
David Neumark

Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality

w4707 Claudia Goldin
The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History

h0055 Dora L. Costa
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates

w4684 Chinhui Juhn
Wage Inequality and Industrial Change: Evidence from Five Decades

w4679 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment

w3909 John Mullahy
Jody L. Sindelar

Alcoholism, Work, and Income Over the Life Cycle

w4625 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Wolter H. J. Hassink
Jan C. van Ours

New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics: Employment, Jobs, and Workers

w4613 Robin L. Lumsdaine
James H. Stock
David A. Wise

Retirement Incentives: The Interaction between Employer-Provided Pensions, Social Security, and Retiree Health Benefits


1993
w4584 David E. Bloom
Gilles Grenier

Language, Employment and Earnings in the United States: Spanish-English Differentials from 1970 to 1990

w4570 David Neumark
William Wascher

Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages: Reply to Card, Katz and Krueger

w4558 Michael Hurd
Kathleen McGarry

The Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Retirement

w4530 Axel Borsch-Supan
Aging in Germany and the United States: International Comparisons

w4492 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Scott Schuh

Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts

w4488 Herschel I. Grossman
Murat Iyigun

Population Increase, Extralegal Appropriation, and the End of Colonialism

w4483 David Card
Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

w4462 Michael D. Hurd
The Effect of Labor Market Rigidities on the Labor Force Behavior of Older Workers

w4414 Edward B. Montgomery
Pattern in Regional Labor Market Adjustment: The United States vs. Japan

w4386 Tadashi Yamada
Tetsuji Yamada

The Allocation of Time: Young Versus Elderly Households in Japan

w4295 Alan L. Gustman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The Role of Pensions in the Labor Market

w4260 David Neumark
Sex Discrimination and Women's Labor Market Interruptions

w4259 McKinley L. Blackburn
David Neumark

Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look


1992
w4228 David Blanchflower
Andrew Oswald

Entrepreneurship, Happiness and Supernormal Returns: Evidence from Britain and the US

w4204 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Gerard Pfann

Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Demand

w4201 Robin L. Lumsdaine
James H. Stock
David A. Wise

Pension Plan Provisions and Retirement: Men & Women, Medicare, and Models

w4099 Claudia Goldin
The Meaning of College in the Lives of American Women: The Past One-Hundred Years

w4087 William T. Dickens
Kevin Lang

Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence

w4067 Joshua D. Angrist
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Payoff to Schooling Using the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery

w4055 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Dynamics of Labor Demand


1991
w3928 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Appointment-Book Problem and Commitment, With Applications to Refereeing and Medicine

w3927 Lawrence F. Katz
Kevin M. Murphy

Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors

w3908 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Pension COLAs

w3897 Shulamit Kahn
Does Employer Monopsony Power Increase Occupational Accidents? The Case of Kentucky Coal Mines

w3893 Ann P. Bartel
Productivity Gains From the Implementation of Employee Training Programs

w3890 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Labor Demand: What Do We Know? What Don't We Know?

w3866 Giuseppe Bertola
Labor Turnover Costs and Average Labor Demand

w3859 David Neumark
William Wascher

Evidence on Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Subminimum Wage Provisions From Panel Data on State Minimum Wage Laws

w3774 Wayne B. Gray
John T. Scholz

Do OSHA Inspections Reduce Injuries? A Panel Analysis

w3746 David G. Blanchflower
Bruce D. Meyer

A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

w3745 Leslie E. Papke
The Asset Allocation of Private Pension Plans

w3728 Steve J. Davis
John Haltiwanger

Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction and Employment Reallocation

w3715 John Bound
Harry J. Holzer

Industrial Shifts, Skills Levels, and the Labor Market for White and Black Males


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