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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

By combining features of rationing models
and hedonic models in a novel way, this paper
develops a structural model of categorical
labor force behavior to help explain several
puzzles in data on unemployment and discouraged
workers. It traces the links…

The urban areas of England experience widely different unemployment rates. This research examines male unemployment in the 78 English county boroughs using data from the 1971 Census. The impact of socio-demographic characteristics, the local industrial structure and environment, and regional…

This paper presents evidence on two aspects of strike activity
associated with the renegotiation of union contracts: the effects of
contract characteristics on dispute probabilities; and the variation in
strike activity over tine within bargaining pairs. Cross-sectional and
longitudinal estimation…

The labor supply of female household heads is distributed across a wide
variety of hours and weeks choices. This papers explores the differential
nature of the weeks per year and hours per week decisions among female heads.
A model of…

Inequality in the unconditional distribution of observed wage rates in the U.S. rose substan-
tially during the 1980s, mostly in the lower tail of the distribution. The causes of this rising
wage inequality are obscured by the fact that concurrent…

In this paper we examine the factors affecting the structure
of executives‘ compensation packages. We focus particularly on the role of
various types of delayed compensation as means of "bonding" executives to
their firms.
The basic problem is to design…

This paper examines the determinants of wages and fringe benefits in the fast
food industry- The focus of the paper is on exploring differences between
company-owned and franchised restaurants because agency problems are likely to
affect the management and operation…

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…