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Browsing Faculty Publications - Labor Economics by Type "article"
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A Brief Review of the Literature on Earnings Mobility in Developing Countries
(2008-02-20)[Excerpt] The literature on income and earnings mobility falls into three categories: 1. Macro mobility studies address the entire economy. They ask the question, how much income mobility and/or earnings mobility is there ... -
A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models
(2004-11-01)[Excerpt] This is a paper on labor markets. Why are labor markets important to economic development? Many individuals and institutions, including the World Bank and the regional development banks, seek “a world free of ... -
A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
(2011-02-01)This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of healthcare professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization ... -
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program
(2007-01-01)I analyze a program implemented in Texas schools serving underprivileged populations that pays both students and teachers for passing grades on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, ... -
A Public Lecture: Labour Markets and Economic Development
(2006-06-01)[Excerpt] I want to put forward three propositions to you based on decades of work in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. First, economic development can be (but need not be) a win-win-win situation - for businesses, for ... -
A Welfare Economic Analysis of Labor Market Policies in the Harris-Todaro Model
(2005-02-01)This paper presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies in the Harris-Todaro labor market model. The policies considered are a policy of modern sector job creation, which I call ... -
Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change: A New Method, With Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States
(2002-10-01)[Excerpt] This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating equations to "account for" or "decompose" the level of income inequality in a country and its change over time. In the ... -
Adjusting Imperfect Data: Overview and Case Studies
(2005-10-05)[Excerpt] In this chapter, instead of using the similarity in the cleaned datasets to investigate economic fundamentals, we focus on the differences in the underlying ‘dirty’ data. We describe two data elements that remain ... -
American Law Schools in a Time of Transition
(2011-12-07)[Excerpt] I will argue that reports of law school unintentionally or intentionally misreporting a variety of types of data to USNWR should not be surprising; we have long seen similar problems occurring with respect to its ... -
An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority
(2007-06-20)[Excerpt] The notion of a negative relationship between risk and incentives is a central prediction of agency theory. A vast literature has failed to find consistent empirical support for this prediction, with some studies ... -
Analysis of the Workforce and Workplace for Rheumatology, and the Research Activities of Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers
(2010-05-18)[Excerpt] The scope and scale of clinical research is unknown for any medical or surgical specialty beyond snapshots of the broad aims and expenditures of research programs sponsored by federal agencies or the pharmaceutical ... -
Assessing Progress Toward Greater Equality of Income Distribution
(1976-12-31)This paper examines the suitability of increases in income equality as a criterion for assessing "commitment" and "progress" of countries, and hence, for allocating development assistance in accordance with the 1975 ... -
Changes in Faculty Composition Within the State University of New York System: 1985-2001
(2003-08-13)[Excerpt] The last two decades of the twentieth century saw a significant growth in the share of faculty members in American colleges and universities that are part-time or are full-time without tenure-track status. Growing ... -
Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists
(2004-03-09)[Excerpt] American colleges and universities are increasingly substituting non-tenure track full-time and part-time faculty for full-time tenured and tenure track faculty. Moreover, institutions of public higher education, ... -
Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities
(2002-01-26)[Excerpt] In 2001, a twenty-day sit-in at Harvard University brought the living-wage debate to the forefront of American consciousness. After a six-month study, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, ... -
Crafting a Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students
(2005-06-01)[Excerpt] It is well-known that test scores are correlated with students’ socio-economic backgrounds. Hence to the extent that colleges are successful in “buying” higher test score students, one should expect that their ... -
Decent Work and Development Policies
(2003-01-01)Welcoming the shift to outcomes which he perceives in the ILO's focus on decent work, the author explores the major issues thus raised. He discusses how to make the notion of decent work more precise in operational terms, ... -
Declining PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Institutions
(2005-04-08)[Excerpt] On average, the typical American citizen who received a PhD during the last 40 years did so approximately 9 years after she received her bachelor’s degree. Thus, if we divide the number of American citizens ... -
Demystifying Endowments
(2009-07-01)[Excerpt] This year, decreases in the financial markets and reported large declines in the values of endowments at many institutions have led to numerous reports about how colleges and universities are slashing budgets, ... -
Demystifying Endowments
(2009-03-09)[Excerpt] Endowments are stocks of financial and real assets that are held by universities to generate income for both current and future operations. “True Endowments” are assets that at the time they were initially given ...
