This paper examines the relationships between various economic outcomes and vocational training in high school for those who have completed exactly twelve years of schooling. The authors attempt to determine whether the findings remain robust when different surveys and time periods of analysis,...

This paper simulates the effects of proposed changes in the social security rules, including the elimination of the Retirement Earnings Test, for men who work after normal retirement age. A policy change that was given serious consideration by the Social Security Administration in 1988-89 (and...

Using data from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study, the 1977 National Medical Care Expenditure Survey, the 1983-86 Survey of Consumer Finances, and the 1988 Current Population Survey, the authors analyze, with a structural retirement model, the effect on retirement of employer-provided health...

The authors estimate a retirement equation with multiple outcome categories to show, first, that self-reported partial retirement is relatively common among white males aged 58 to 69, particularly partial retirement into a job different from the full-time job held at age 55, and that pattern...

Because employer-sponsored group pension plans entail agreements between workers and their employers explicitly linking future payment and employment, they offer an unusual window into long-term employment relationships. This review of recent research on pensions explores how pensions influence...

Explores the underlying reasons for interarea differences in teachers' salaries. Relationship between teachers' salaries and teacher quality; Factors that influence the differences in the cost of teachers' services; Implications of the findings for educational policy. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Discussion of the short-run fluctuations in the skilled-unskilled wage differential in unionized building construction industry in the United States during the period 1953 through 1970. Characteristics of the skill differential in construction; Factors related to supply and demand; Significance...

Presents a study that discussed the pattern of relationships between wages and wage supplements in the construction industry. Institutional aspects of wages and wage supplements; Empirical results; Information on the individual types of benefits; Conclusions. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)