Journal of Human Resources articles from June 1994

Journal of Human Resources archives from June 1994

Experimental evidence on unemployment insurance work-search policies. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The Unemployment Insurance (UI) program is designed to provide temporary income support to involuntarily unemployed individuals while they search for work. It is a comprehensive program that covers over 105 million workers and...

The impact of reemployment bonuses on insured unemployment in the New Jersey and Illinois reemployment bonus experiments. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system provides short-term income support to involuntarily unemployed individuals while they seek work. Because the UI system pays benefits to claimants for the weeks they remain unemployed, it...

Expenditure decisions of divorced mothers and income composition.
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction In this paper we examine the effect of the composition of a divorced mother's income on her expenditure patterns through the use of simple models of the expenditure decisions made by divorced parents and by conducting an...

Self-selection, prenatal care, and birthweight among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in New York City. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1994... Applications, eds. C. Manski and D. McFadden. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press. Maddala, G. S. 1983. Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rosenzweig, Mark R., and T. Paul Schultz. 1981....

Pensions and indenture premia.
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The implicit pension contract theory has been successful in explaining the empirical relationships between pensions, less quitting and earlier retirement.(1) It also has come to play an important role in understanding the...

Turnover and promotion of lawyers: an inquiry into gender differences. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1994... Gilson, R. J., and R. H. Mnookin. 1985. "Sharing Among the Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry in the Corporate Law Firm and How Partners Split Profits." Stanford Law Review 37(2):313-97. Gotz, G. A., and J. J. McCall, 1983. "Sequential...

Student achievement and schooling choice in low-income countries: evidence from Ghana.
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction A key policy concern for low-income countries is the cost effectiveness of alternative educational investments aimed at boosting student achievement. Would the marginal dollar be better spent providing schools with more...

Gender differences in wage losses from impairments: estimates from the survey of income and program participation. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction Persons with disabilities have emerged as an important voice in American politics in recent years. The political strength of this new minority group, demonstrated by the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,...

Compensation for permanent impairment and the duration of work absence: evidence from four natural experiments.
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction Economists often use empirical estimates from cross-section data to predict the effect of a discrete policy change. An alternative methodology, a natural experiment, can be used when data are available before and after a policy...

Estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes using duration data. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The theory of equalizing differences, or compensating wage differentials, provides the analytical framework for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job attributes. One drawback of this theory is that it...

Household labor supply: some notes on estimating a model with Pareto optimal outcomes. (includes appendices) (Communication)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction Much empirical investigation of household labor supply has used a model in which the preferences of individual members of the household are not explicitly represented. Recent research has begun to examine this and to explore...