Empirical studies of wage-determination, within the general framework of the Phillips curve and its variants, demonstrate remarkable consistency with respect to two particular specifications. They usually involve explanatory variables in the form of simple fourth-order moving averages and a...

Empirical studies of wage-determination, within the general framework of the Phillips curve and its variants, demonstrate remarkable consistency with respect to two particular specifications. They usually involve explanatory variables in the form of simple fourth-order moving averages and a...

In this paper, we track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 1980–81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991, nearly a decade later. We present measures of the economic...

This study provides an assessment of the intertemporal economic well-being of a representative sample of women who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) in 1980–81. We compare their economic circumstances over the 1982–1991 period with those of disabled men who also...