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Working Papers

2008

1. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
2. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1991-2003: Preliminary Evidence from LEHD data
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics

2006

3. Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
   Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2006)
4. Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2006) View citations
5. Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Wage Growth
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics

2005

6. Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen Behind?
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
7. Wage Trajectories of Workers in Poor Households
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics

2004

8. Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth: Some Evidence
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
9. Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
10. Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2004) View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2002)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2005)

2003

11. Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs about How They Will Fare in the Labor Market?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
12. Wage Inequality, Earnings Inequality and Poverty in the U.S. Over the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

2001

13. Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations
14. Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2001) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2003)
15. On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations
    Also in JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (1998)
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2001) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2002)
16. Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited -- Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations
17. Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
18. Wage Mobility within and between Jobs
    LoWER Working Papers, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies View citations

1998

19. An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (1998) View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (1997) View citations
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
20. Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
21. Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
22. Trends in the Variances of Permanent and Transitory Earnings in the U.S. and Their Relation to Earnings Mobility
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

1997

23. An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
24. Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
25. Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1998)
26. Family Income Mobility -- How Much Is There and Has It Changed?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
27. The Impact of Changes in Public Employment on Low Wage Labor Markets
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

1995

28. Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising in Other Industrialized Countries? -- the Role of Institutional Constraints
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
29. The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics

1993

30. Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising In Other Industrialized Countries?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
31. Is The Correlation In Welfare Participation Across Generations Spurious?
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1996)
32. The Impact Of Technological Change, Deindustrialization, And Internationalization Of Trade On Earnings Inequality and International Perspective
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

Undated

33. Has ‘Welfare Dependency’ Increased?
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
34. Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the United States: 1969-1987
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations

Journal Articles

2008

1. Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth
   LABOUR, 2008, 22, (1), 1-22

2006

2. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (2), 245-246

2005

3. Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87, (3), 556-568 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)
4. INEQUALITY OF WAGE RATES, EARNINGS AND FAMILY INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1975-2002
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51, (2), 231-254 View citations

2003

5. Is the Proportion of College Workers in Noncollege Jobs Increasing?
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21, (2), 409-448 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2001)

2002

6. On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility
   Review of Economic Studies, 2002, 69, (1), 191-208 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2001)
7. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the United States
   Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (478), C68-C73 View citations

1999

8. Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data
   Journal of Labor Economics, 1999, 17, (4), S91-126 View citations
9. Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Role of Selection on Observables
   Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 1999, (55-56), 06 View citations

1998

10. Cross-National Differences In The Rise In Earnings Inequality: Market And Institutional Factors
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (4), 489-502 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1997)

1997

11. Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (2), 633-687 View citations
12. Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, 11, (2), 21-40 View citations

1996

13. Is the correlation in welfare participation across generations spurious?
    Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 63, (1), 1-25 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1993)
14. The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data to Estimate Coefficients of Group Level Variables
    Computational Economics, 1996, 9, (4), 355-61

1995

15. The Effect of Cohort Composition on Human Capital Accumulation across Generations
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1995, 13, (1), 155-76 View citations

1994

16. The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1994, 25, (1994-2), 217-272 View citations
17. Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 38-42 View citations

1993

18. Changes in Inequality of Family Income in Seven Industrialized Countries
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (2), 136-42 View citations

1990

19. A random-effects logit model of work-welfare transitions
    Journal of Econometrics, 1990, 43, (1-2), 63-75 View citations
20. AFDC Participation across Generations
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 367-71 View citations

1989

21. How the Rich Have Fared, 1973-87
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (2), 310-14

1988

22. An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (4), 701-07 View citations
23. The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1988, 6, (3), 362-75 View citations

1987

24. Earnings Inequality, the Spatial Concentration of Poverty, and the Underclass
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (2), 211-15 View citations

1986

25. Do Rising Tides Lift All Boats? The Impact of Secular and Cyclical Changes on Poverty
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 405-10 View citations

1985

26. A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Economic Growth and Transfers on Poverty
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (1), 153-61 View citations
27. Involuntary Terminations, Unemployment, and Job Matching: A Test of Job Search Theory
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1985, 3, (2), 109-23 View citations

1984

28. Earnings Inequality among Males in the United States: Trends and the Effect of Labor Force Growth
    Journal of Political Economy, 1984, 92, (1), 59-89 View citations

1981

29. A Note on Estimating Treatment Effects [The Estimation of Labor Supply Models Using Experimental Data]
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (4), 764-69

1978

30. A comparison of marginal productivity and earnings by occupation
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1978, 31, (3), 368-378

Chapters

2000

1. Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries
   Chapter 05 in Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000, vol. 1, pp 261-307 View citations