Journal of Human Resources articles from March 1993

Journal of Human Resources archives from March 1993

Maternal expectations and ex post rationalizations: the usefulness of survey information on the wantedness of children. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1993... 15. Based on 1982 interview information, the proportion of first pregnancies that were wanted, assuming that all aborted pregnancies (12 percent of all first pregnancies) were unwanted births, is .452. 16. This is somewhat more complicated to...

Is there sex discrimination in the legal profession? Further evidence on tangible and intangible margins. (includes appendices)
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction In this paper we draw from an American Bar Association sponsored survey of lawyers' career satisfaction/dissatisfaction to look for empirical evidence of sex discrimination against women in the legal profession. We are unable...

Mismatch in the Spanish labor market: overeducation?
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction Overeducation was a central issue captivating the attention of U.S. labor economists during the seventies, when the problem and its implications first became apparent (Freeman 1976, Rumberger 1981). Overeducation has been...

The decline of private-sector unionism and the gender wage gap.
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction The wage gap between men and women in the private sector has narrowed from .40 to .31 between 1973 and 1988.(1) Explanations for the narrowing of the gap are found in several studies. For example, Blau and Beller (1988) show...

Do community-based, long-term-care services reduce nursing home use? A transition probability analysis. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction As the U.S. elderly population grows, the demand for nursing home beds and public expenditures on long-term care are expected to increase commensurately. One hope for controlling the growth in long-term-care expenditures is the...

The effects of comparable worth in the public sector on public/private occupational relative wages.
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction It is well known that women are paid less than men, and that this differential persists despite policies of equal employment opportunity.(1) Proponents of comparable worth attribute much of the wage differential to occupational...

Gender differences in training, capital, and wages.
March 22, 1993... Paper #2271. Duncan, Greg J., and Saul Hoffman. 1979. "On-the-Job Training and Earnings Differences by Race and Sex." Review of Economics and Statistics 61(4):593-603. England, Paula. 1982. "The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain...

The varied economic returns to postsecondary education: new evidence from the Class of 1972. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1993... I. Introduction By now the economic benefits of schooling have been firmly established (reviewed, for example, in Leslie and Brinkman 1988), and widely used to justify further education. Most analyses, however, examine relatively gross...