TY  - JOUR
AU  - Saffer,Henry
TI  - Wages and Working Conditions
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1418
PY  - 1984
Y2  - August 1984
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1418
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1418.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Henry Saffer
NBER
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7956
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: hsaffer@gc.cuny.edu
AB  - This paper presents another extension of the approach initiated by Brown. As in Brown's work, the wage change specification is used to control for bias due to omitted ability data. Then, as in Duncan and Hoimlund's study, working conditions are measured using subjective self?reported data. However, in this paper, working conditions are measured by a single comprehensive variable. This approach eliminates omitted working conditions as a source of bias. The working conditions measure is then treated as an unobserved variable which limits measurement error to an unknown scale factor. The model is estimated using a technique derived by memiya (1978).
ER  -