Theory and evidence indicate that wage rates across labor markets adjust only partially with respect to differences in consumer prices. Earnings differentials are estimated for 185 labor markets during 1985-95, following control for worker and area characteristics, based on nominal wages, wages...

This study estimates union effects on workers' compensation indemnity claims in 1977-92, based on individual panel data constructed from the March Current Population Survey. Union members were substantially more likely to receive workers' compensation benefits than were similar nonunion workers,...

The authors investigate multiple biases in the individual weekly ballots submitted by the 65 voters in the Associated Press college football poll in 2007. Using censored Tobit modeling, they find evidence of bias toward teams (a) from the voter's state, (b) in conferences represented in the...