Journal of Human Resources articles from January 1993

Journal of Human Resources archives from January 1993

A budget-based definition of poverty, with an application to single-parent families.
January 1, 1993... I. Introduction In the United States, the official method of computing a poverty-line income and of conducting the annual count of families who fall below it is widely understood to be deficient in a number of important respects.(1) This paper...

Chronic poverty in the United States.
January 1, 1993... the American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, 544-59. Plackett, R. L., and P. J. Burman. 1946. "The Design of Optimal Multifactorial Experiments." Biometrika 33 Part IV(June):305-25. Rainwater, Lee....

Wage determination of registered nurses in proprietary and nonprofit nursing homes.
January 1, 1993... I. Introduction Recent studies of remuneration in nonprofit enterprises have depended on one of two different hypotheses concerning the behavior of nonprofit organizations, each one yielding a different prediction for wage differentials...

Wage offers and full-time and part-time employment by British women. (includes appendix)
January 1, 1993... I. Introduction In the conventional labor supply model, a woman receives an hourly wage offer, and given other family income and family responsibilities, she chooses the number of hours to work (see, for example, Smith 1980, Killingsworth and...

Individual heterogeneity and interindustry wage differentials.
January 1, 1993... I. Introduction This paper provides estimates of the interindustry wage structure that are more efficient and reliable than those obtained in previous work by using a fixed-effects estimator on a long panel, the National Longitudinal Survey of...

Measuring poverty among Canadian households: sensitivity to choice of measure and scale. (includes appendix)
January 1, 1993... I. Introduction How sensitive are our estimates of poverty to the procedures we employ to obtain them? To arrive at an estimate of the level of poverty in a country, a series of measurement choices must be made. First, a "poverty threshold"...