Journal of Human Resources articles from January 1995

Journal of Human Resources archives from January 1995

Human capital and information: the employer size-wage effect.
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction It has become an accepted "fact" of the labor market that the larger the employer, the greater the wage for the employees. Lester (1967, p. 60), using the 1954 U.S. Census of Manufacturers, reports wage differentials between...

The effect of incomes, wages, and AFDC benefits on marital disruption. (Aid to Families with Dependent Children)(includes appendices)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction In the past several decades, divorce has become a common, if much-lamented, feature of American family life. The divorce rate began its ascent in the early 1960s and then rose rapidly and steadily throughout the 1970s, peaking...

The effect of health on the work effort of single mothers.
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction The role of welfare (Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC) in the paid labor force effort of women eligible or potentially eligible for welfare has been one of the most researched topics among labor economists in...

Structural models of family labor supply: a discrete choice approach. (includes appendix)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction In this paper, we analyze structural models of labor supply of the two spouses in Dutch two adults families. Family utility depends on the husband's leisure, the wife's leisure, and family income. The family members maximize...

Are earnings profiles steeper than productivity profiles? Evidence from Israeli firm-level data. (includes appendix)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction Evidence of rising earnings profiles over the life cycle is well documented in empirical labor economics. Various theories have been put forth to explain this rise. The dominant explanation is the human capital model, in which...

Measurement error and poverty rates of widows. (includes appendix)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction In examining dynamic aspects of poverty, economists have focused their attention on panel data. By observing an individual over time, panel surveys allow one to construct a sequence of observations on income. These values can...

Medical care for children: public insurance, private insurance, and racial differences in utilization.
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction Medicaid is a federal-state matching entitlement program providing medical insurance to low-income persons. In 1989 10.3 million dependent children under age 21 were covered at a cost of $6.9 billion (U.S. Committee on Ways and...

Marriage rates and marriageable men: a test of the Wilson hypothesis. (includes appendices)
January 1, 1995... Measures of women's economic opportunity in the local marriage/labor market that are not endogenous with marriage are difficult to come by. I attempt to avoid this endogeneity problem by, in effect, using the industrial structure of an SMSA as an...

Testing hypotheses of immigrant self-employment. (Communication)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction Researchers are interested in self-employed workers for several reasons. The self-employed sector has expanded significantly over the last 20 years. This growth has both positive and negative aspects. Small businesses are an...

Comment on W. Norton Grubb: "The Varied Economic Returns to Postsecondary Education: New Evidence from the Class of 1972." (response to article by W.N. Grubb, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 365)(inludes appendices)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction In "The Varied Economic Returns to Postsecondary Education: New Evidence from the Class of 1972," an article recently published in the Journal of Human Resources (Volume 28, no. 2, pp. 365-82), Norton Grubb reaches two main...

Response to comment. (response to article by T. Kane and C. Rouse in this issue, p. 205)
January 1, 1995... I. Introduction Thomas Kane and Cecilia Rouse are right about three programming errors in the data underlying my article on the returns to postsecondary education. The programmer simply reversed course credits from community colleges and...