The authors examine the relationship between the receipt of employer-provided training and the characteristics of workers and jobs using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. They find that the intensity of training...

Using 1975-91 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors provide a set of facts about vacation leave. They show that on average, vacation time taken rose one-to-one with paid vacation, although with variation by year; annual hours worked fell by about one full-time week with every...

The authors provide new estimates of the return to job seniority using a dataset similar to that employed in Joseph Altonji and Robert Shakotko, "Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority?" Review of Economic Studies (1987) and Robert Topel, "Specific Capital, Mobility, and Wages," Journal of Political...