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http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3119.html 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines reasons the reported wages of women have remained constant at approximately 59 percent of men's wages during the twentieth century, and looks for explanations for the remarkable growth in the proportion of women who work.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2941.html 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines how economic development has affected the life-cycle wage and employment histories of various cohorts of Malaysian male workers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1666.html 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uses Census samples to examine relative male earnings by race.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1121.html 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Family Decisionmaking Over the Life Cycle: Some Implications for Estimating the Effects of Income Maintenance Programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2295.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Race Differences in Earnings: A Survey and New Evidence.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3330.html 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undertakes a reassessment of the economic progress of American blacks over the past 40 years, drawing on the 1980 Census micro data file and the newly released micro data files for the 1940 and 1950 Censuses.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1728.html 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examining the role of assets in labor supply functions, the author argues that although assets have frequently been used to measure the response of hours worked to nonwage-related income, it is incorrect to include them in a labor supply function.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB4002.html 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This research brief summarizes analysis on narrowing the wage gap between blacks and whites, contained in the RAND Corporation report, "Closing the Gap: Forty Years of Economic Progress for Black" (R-3330-DOL).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5932.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines earnings of synthetic cohorts contained in the Current Population Surveys (CPS) for each year from 1968 to 1975. The CPS data are useful to test for the importance of local labor markets because individuals can be assigned to markets by cal...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5020.html 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decades of demographic research about older Americans indicate a strong association between level of wealth and status of health.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6250.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

An introduction to a forthcoming volume, Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation. This book will contain seven essays by members of the Labor and Population Program at The Rand Corporation. These essays deal with a variety of theoretical and stati...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6253.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

A review of Richard Freeman, The Overeducated American. Freeman argues that income returns from college have declined so rapidly since 1970 that from both a private and social perspective additional investments in college training will be marginal at...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6249.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Investigates the influence of wives' earnings on distribution of family earnings. In the process, some differences in the manner in which family earnings are distributed within racial groups are highlighted. Earnings of wives equalize income distri...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6055.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks are becoming less distinguishable from whites in market earnings. Relative to white males, black male earnings have gradually increased, and the rise during the 1960s and early 1970s is even larger than observed earlier. By 1975 almost compl...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6026.html 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years ago the average black woman employed full-time was earning approximately half the wage rate of a similarly employed white woman. By 1975 almost complete racial parity in female wages had been achieved. This paper examines several possib...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR407.html 2006-09-12T18:40:00Z 2006-09-12T18:40:00Z

Examines the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study sample born in 1931-1941.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR280.html 2005-07-18T10:45:00Z 2005-07-18T10:45:00Z

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the U.S., the U.K. and The Netherlands.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR155.html 2004-12-21T12:10:00Z 2004-12-21T12:10:00Z

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR253.html 2005-04-17T21:02:00Z 2005-04-17T21:02:00Z