This paper examines the effect of earnings taxes on wage variability over t ime. The authors estimate a "hedonic wage locus" which indicates ho w the market allows individuals to substitute the mean level of the w age for its variability across jobs. Information from this locus is u sed to...

Tenure responses in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Surveys are often inconsistent with calendar time. These inconsistencies pose special problems in the PSID because job changes cannot be identified directly, so researchers must infer them from...

This article reports nonparametric estimates of the effect of labor-supply behavior on the payments to families enrolled in the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The randomized assignment of families to the treatment groups in this experiment was designed to permit the calculation of...