Journal of Human Resources articles from March 1995

Journal of Human Resources archives from March 1995

The Butz-Ward fertility model in the light of more recent data.
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction Fifteen years have elapsed since the publication of Butz and Ward's widely cited article "The Emergence of Countercyclical U.S. Fertility" (1979). The interest that it generated has been maintained throughout that period, with...

Child support reform and the labor supply of lone mothers in the United Kingdom. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1995... 1. Introduction The number of lone parents has risen very rapidly in the United Kingdom in recent years. In 1991 there were estimated to be 1.30 million lone parents representing 17 percent of all families with children,(1) compared to just...

Changes in college skills and the rise in the college wage premium. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction The college wage premium rose sharply during the 1980s. Estimates from Current Population Survey (CPS) data show that between 1979 and the late 1980s, the proportionate difference in mean wages between male college graduates...

Participation in and contributions to 401(k) pension plans: evidence from plan data.
March 22, 1995... 1. Introduction Employer-sponsored pre-tax savings plans, often called 401(k) plans, differ from traditional employer-sponsored retirement plans in two important ways. First, employees are permitted to make pre-tax contributions to the plan....

Recruiting smarter teachers. (includes appendix)
March 22, 1995... 1. Introduction A longstanding complaint about American education concerns the quality of the teaching work force. In 1963 the president of the Council for Basic Education described teacher education in the following terms: "A weak faculty...

An econometric model of the two-part decisionmaking process in the demand for health care. (includes appendices)
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction In order to obtain a better assessment of the forces that have caused the increase in health care expenditures, it is of great importance to understand the decisionmaking process underlying the demand for health care. Studies...

Secular changes in the work and retirement patterns of older men.
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction Economists and other social scientists have generated an impressive array of research examining the dramatic reduction in labor force attachments of older men, occurring since the late 1960s.(1) Many of these studies have...

Retrospective bias in the displaced worker surveys.(Communications)
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction The Displaced Worker Survey (DWS) is the major source of data on job displacement resulting from plant closings, firm dissolution, and layoffs.(1) The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioned Census to conduct the DWS...

The expected penalty for committing a crime: an analysis of minimum wage violations.
March 22, 1995... I. Introduction Virtually no systematic evidence exists on the expected costs facing criminals.(1) In this paper, we calculate the expected costs facing violators of the minimum wage provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). First, we...