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In this paper, I first refer to the center-periphery dichotomy in terms of scientific output, placing emphasis upon the relation that exists between science and technology development, on the one hand, and social and economic development, on the other. I…

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of
school resources on students‘ eventual earnings and educational
attainment. In addition, new evidence is presented on the impact
of the great disparity in school resources between black and white

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early
1990s. To analyze the determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set
on the number and nature of such crimes at the county…

In this paper, we have examined the relationship between market structure
and employment discrimination using an especially constructed data set that
links microeconomic data on female employment and indicators of market concen-
tration in the banking industry. By using firm-specific…

This paper analyzes the labor supply behavior of food and beverage vendors at a
single major league baseball stadium over an entire season. In contrast to the conven-
tional labor supply model, the vendors who I study are paid a…

Is executive compensation influenced by the composition of the Board of Directors? About one in
ten Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) is "reciprocally interlocked" with another CEO -- a current or
retired CEO of firm A serves as a director of…

Models of the labor supply behavior of single persons predict that a negative income tax (NIT) will always reduce the labor supply and
earnings of such persons. I consider three models of family labor supply; and find that in all…

Standard models of dynamic labor demand rely on the presence of
adjustment costs to explain the observed smoothness in employment patterns,
although the costs are often difficult to quantify. The experience rating
feature of the U.S. Unemployment Insurance (UI) system…

This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…