increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that … includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers … similar firms. This evidence suggests that displaced workers' earnings losses result largely from the loss of some …

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings …

-defined black groups. He found that native-born blacks of West Indian parentage had earnings that were 8 to 11 percent higher than … the earnings of native-parentage blacks, and that native-born blacks of other foreign parentage had earnings that were 12 … earnings of native-born black American men of West Indian ancestry and the earnings of other native-born men, both black and …

suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of … public services. A different set of policies must be used to increase the earnings of the inner city poor. These employment … poverty problem, any realistic policy to significantly reduce inner-city poverty through enhanced earnings will require tens …