<DIV>Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the...</div>

<DIV>In an economy characterized by frequent change in technology, in the types of goods and services purchased, and in the forms of business organization, keeping track of price change continues to pose many difficulties. Price change affects the way we perceive changes in such basic measures as...</div>

This paper presents an activity analysis model of primary medical care which, through the use of integer constraints, captures both the technology of ambulatory care and the institutional restriction that labor inputs must be employed in discrete units. The result is that staffing patterns and...

This study analyzes demand patterns conditioning on male and female work status and hours of labor supplied, following Browning and Meghir's approach [1991]. It also explores implications of "collective" models of household decision-marking. Somewhat weak evidence is found for the necessity of...

In this paper we present the results of an analysis of the impact of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) on the utilization of physician services and on health status in rural areas, using Health Interview Survey (HIS) data for 1978. Because county identifiers were available to us for the...

<DIV>In an economy characterized by frequent change in technology, in the types of goods and services purchased, and in the forms of business organization, keeping track of price change continues to pose many difficulties. Price change affects the way we perceive changes in such basic measures as...</div>