Labor supply equations are often estimated by regressing hours worked on a wage measure which is itself the quotient of income and hours, leading to downward biases. The author shows that where both income and hours of work are measured with error, ...
Policies that desegregate jobs by sex affect two social issues: the absolute and relative increase in female poverty, and the equality of pay and occupation between men and women. The authors have limited experience in evaluating such policies, but ...
Examines the job search behavior of a sample of low income central city residents from the Baltimore, Maryland SMSA. The specific model which is used in this study draws on work of Lippman and McCall and incorporates concepts of spatial separation o...
Minimum wage laws reduce employment, particularly among those whose wages are lowest. The law tells workers that unless they can find jobs at or above the specified minimum, they cannot work. Teenagers are not the only ones affected. The low-wage, lo...
Assesses whether and how the Wirtz concept of community-education-work councils might affect youth, particularly their unemployment rates. Since it is assumed that these councils will deliver programs of a career education nature, the paper assesses ...
Poor physical accessibility has been offered to explain why low income central city workers are systematically retained in the lowest paying occupations. However, it is possible that factors other than physical accessibility contribute to retaining w...
An analysis of the skills and knowledge required to maintain advanced avionics systems on the flight line to provide a basis for evaluating existing training methods and career structure.
A methodology for determining the effect of one term of military service on men's civilian earnings and occupations. Determining civilian benefits from military training would enable the Department of Defense to structure enlistment and reenlistment...
Describes two examples of how our understanding of the migration process has been broadened by the Social Security Work History Sample. In the first, the sample is used as a longitudinal register from which individual migration histories can be deve...
Most welfare reform programs incorporate negative income tax principles. However, if a program reduces the work incentive and therefore the hours of work of its new participants, projected income increases will be lower and subsidy costs higher than...
Considers a group of [S] identical aircraft, each of which is partitioned into [K] parts which fail exponentially. The only way in which a failed aircraft can be repaired is by cannibalizing its out-of-commission parts from other failed aircraft. T...
Suggested personnel policies for small companies recruiting and hiring members of minority groups. Small companies can capitalize on their size by emphasizing more personal and informal human relationships in their recruiting activity. They can upg...
A discussion of the sociological effects of automation on employment, identifying those areas in which human services are still urgently needed. 5 pp....
A model which demonstrates how the pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors of total income may operate on the margin to determine the numbers of people in different occupations. The net present income values at age 18 for several occupations--building-con...
A summary of air base supply activity at twenty-nine bases, all but one of which are located in the United States. An attempt is made to estimate the supply workload of a typical base as part of a broader investigation to improve the processing of su...
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Education Certificate in gender analysis in economics, American University; MA in economics, American University; BA in economics, University of Colorado
