The declining economic position over the past two decades of those workers with less skill increases the importance of the unemployment insurance (UI) system in providing a safety net during periods of unemployment. Recent welfare reform legislation, designed to encourage labor market entry of...

The evaluation of the gender wage gap centers on the consistent estimation of the parameters of interest in a human capital wage regression model. In previous studies, the consistency of the parameter estimates often depends on the restrictive assumptions of strict exogeneity and mean...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of young men and women in their early careers. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion...

This study extends previous works by Sandell and Shapiro (1980) and Shaw and Shapiro (1987), and considers the impact that women's prior plans about future market work have on their earnings and their labor force participation probabilities later in life. Results indicate that consistent prior...

Using the 1964–1995 March Current Population Surveys and the 1940–1990 Census, this paper examines the relationship between female employment growth and changes in labor demand. Specifically, we examine whether industrial change and changes in labor demand can account for both the...

This study estimates earnings function parameters across alternative occupational paths, with an emphasis on identifying rates of return to post-school human capital investment. Based on cross-sectional and synthetic cohort analysis using the 1973–2000 Current Population Surveys, estimates are...

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...