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Working Papers
2015
- Is there an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility
Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies
2011
- Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2011) View citations (6) Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2008) View citations (11)
2010
- Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (65)
Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2010) View citations (105) NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010) View citations (68) Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2010) View citations (38)
See also Journal Article Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2014) View citations (187) (2014)
2008
- 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 View citations (9)
2006
- Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)
Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2006) View citations (11)
See also Journal Article Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Nonclassical Measurement Error, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2010) View citations (75) (2010)
- 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 (25)
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006) View citations (27)
- 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
- Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen
Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
- Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP – Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?
Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
- Wage Trajectories of Workers in Poor Households
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
2004
- Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
- Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (13)
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2004) View citations (12) Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (2002) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2005) View citations (111) (2005)
- Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth: Some Evidence
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
2003
- 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
- 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 (6)
2001
- Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
Also in JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations (6)
- 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 (3)
See also Journal Article Is the Proportion of College Workers in Noncollege Jobs Increasing?, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2003) View citations (49) (2003)
- On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (3)
Also in Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (1998)  Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2001) View citations (4) JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations (11)
See also Journal Article On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2002) View citations (121) (2002)
- 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 (9)
- Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
- Wage Mobility within and between Jobs
LoWER Working Papers, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies View citations (15)
1998
- 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 (489)
Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (1998) View citations (475) Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations (464) Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (1997) View citations (8)
See also Journal Article An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (1998) View citations (486) (1998)
- Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (22)
See also Chapter Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries, Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier (2000) View citations (94) (2000)
- Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
- Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
- 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 (9)
1997
- 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 (18)
See also Journal Article An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (1998) View citations (73) (1998)
- Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (18)
- 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 (24)
Also in LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg (1997) View citations (8)
See also Journal Article Cross-National Differences In The Rise In Earnings Inequality: Market And Institutional Factors, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (1998) View citations (58) (1998)
- Family Income Mobility -- How Much Is There and Has It Changed?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (21)
- 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 (1)
1995
- Cross National Comparisons of Levels and Trends in Inequality
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (5)
- 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 (2)
- The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (12)
See also Chapter The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?, International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan (1998) View citations (3) (1998)
- The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
1993
- Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising In Other Industrialized Countries?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
- Is The Correlation In Welfare Participation Across Generations Spurious?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics 
See also Journal Article Is the correlation in welfare participation across generations spurious?, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1996) View citations (56) (1996)
- 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 (2)
1992
- Changes in Inequality of Family Income in Seven Industrialized Countries Responses to Growing Earnings Inequality
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
- The Impact of Technology Change, Deindustrialization, and Internationalization of Trade on Earnings Inequality An International Perspective
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (1)
1991
- Changes in Earnings Inequality -- an International Perspective
LIS Working papers, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg View citations (3)
1988
- A Random Effects Logit Model of Work-Welfare Transitions
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics 
See also Journal Article A random-effects logit model of work-welfare transitions, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (1990) View citations (16) (1990)
- Material Gains from Marriage Reconsidered
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
- The Effect of Cohort Composition On Human Capital Accumulation Across Generations
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics 
See also Journal Article The Effect of Cohort Composition on Human Capital Accumulation across Generations, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (1995) View citations (10) (1995)
1987
- An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics 
See also Journal Article An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (1988) View citations (4) (1988)
1986
- Can Work Disincentives Shorten the Duration of Job Search?
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
Undated
- Has ‘Welfare Dependency’ Increased?
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
- 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 (10)
Journal Articles
2014
- Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6, (1), 70-101 View citations (187)
See also Working Paper Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages, IZA Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (65) (2010)
2013
- Book Review of Changing Fortunes. Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11, (2), 267-268
2012
- Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings: Methods and Evidence
Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47, (1), 204-236 View citations (95)
2011
- Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the U.S.: 1969–1987
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 439-459 View citations (36)
2010
- Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Nonclassical Measurement Error
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92, (2), 302-315 View citations (75)
See also Working Paper Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error, IZA Discussion Papers (2006) View citations (12) (2006)
2009
- Do earnings subsidies affect job choice? The impact of SSP subsidies on job turnover and wage growth
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42, (4), 1276-1304 View citations (2)
Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009, 42, (4), 1276-1304 (2009) View citations (2)
- The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009, 23, (4), 3-24 View citations (123)
2008
- Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth
LABOUR, 2008, 22, (1), 1-22 View citations (12)
2006
- The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (2), 245-246
2005
- Can work alter welfare recipients' beliefs?
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005, 24, (3), 485-498 View citations (64)
- Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87, (3), 556-568 View citations (111)
See also Working Paper Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (2004) View citations (13) (2004)
- 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 (92)
- Inequality in America; Poor kids in a rich country
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005, 24, (2), 461-463
2003
- Is the Proportion of College Workers in Noncollege Jobs Increasing?
Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21, (2), 409-448 View citations (49)
See also Working Paper Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing?, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (2001) (2001)
2002
- On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility
The Review of Economic Studies, 2002, 69, (1), 191-208 View citations (121)
See also Working Paper On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (2001) View citations (3) (2001)
- Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the United States
Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (478), C68-C73 View citations (199)
1999
- Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data
Journal of Labor Economics, 1999, 17, (4), S91-126 View citations (77)
- Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Role of Selection on Observables
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 1999, (55-56), 129-152 View citations (53)
1998
- An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Journal of Human Resources, 1998, 33, (2), 251-299 View citations (486)
See also Working Paper An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, NBER Technical Working Papers (1998) View citations (489) (1998)
- An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Journal of Human Resources, 1998, 33, (2), 300-344 View citations (73)
See also Working Paper 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 (1997) View citations (18) (1997)
- 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 (58)
See also Working Paper Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (1997) View citations (24) (1997)
1997
- Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality
Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (2), 633-687 View citations (512)
- Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, 11, (2), 21-40 View citations (218)
1996
- Is the correlation in welfare participation across generations spurious?
Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 63, (1), 1-25 View citations (56)
See also Working Paper Is The Correlation In Welfare Participation Across Generations Spurious?, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (1993) (1993)
- The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data to Estimate Coefficients of Group Level Variables
Computational Economics, 1996, 9, (4), 355-61 View citations (2)
1995
- The Effect of Cohort Composition on Human Capital Accumulation across Generations
Journal of Labor Economics, 1995, 13, (1), 155-76 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper The Effect of Cohort Composition On Human Capital Accumulation Across Generations, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (1988) (1988)
1994
- The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1994, 25, (2), 217-272 View citations (317)
- Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends
American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 38-42 View citations (36)
1993
- Changes in Inequality of Family Income in Seven Industrialized Countries
American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (2), 136-42 View citations (19)
1992
- Book Review: Labor Economics: Jobs, Earnings, and Employment Growth in the United States
ILR Review, 1992, 46, (1), 204-204
- The intergenerational transmission of welfare participation: Facts and possible causes
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1992, 11, (2), 254-272 View citations (26)
1990
- A random-effects logit model of work-welfare transitions
Journal of Econometrics, 1990, 43, (1-2), 63-75 View citations (16)
See also Working Paper A Random Effects Logit Model of Work-Welfare Transitions, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (1988) (1988)
- AFDC Participation across Generations
American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 367-71 View citations (24)
1989
- How the Rich Have Fared, 1973-87
American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (2), 310-14 View citations (10)
- Increasing Inequality in the United States: What We Know and What We Don’t
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1989, 11, (2), 174-195 View citations (3)
1988
- 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 (4)
See also Working Paper An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings, Boston College Working Papers in Economics (1987) (1987)
- The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search
Journal of Labor Economics, 1988, 6, (3), 362-75 View citations (1)
1987
- Earnings Inequality, the Spatial Concentration of Poverty, and the Underclass
American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (2), 211-15 View citations (6)
- Impact of 1981 AFDC Reforms on Months Worked and Welfare Duration
Journal of Human Resources, 1987, 22, (4), 542-550
1986
- 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 (19)
- Families with Children Have Fared Worst
Challenge, 1986, 29, (1), 40-47
1985
- A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Economic Growth and Transfers on Poverty
American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (1), 153-61 View citations (21)
- Involuntary Terminations, Unemployment, and Job Matching: A Test of Job Search Theory
Journal of Labor Economics, 1985, 3, (2), 109-23 View citations (23)
- Losing Ground
Challenge, 1985, 28, (2), 32-38
- The increasing proportion of men with low earnings in the United States
Demography, 1985, 22, (1), 25-34 View citations (3)
1984
- 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 (51)
1983
- What averages don't reveal about real income growth
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1983, 3, (1), 120-125
1982
- Viewpoint
Challenge, 1982, 25, (2), 57-58
1981
- A Note on Estimating Treatment Effects [The Estimation of Labor Supply Models Using Experimental Data]
American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (4), 764-69
- A Synthesis of Contour and Flexible Wage Hypotheses
Journal of Economic Issues, 1981, 15, (3), 629-640
- Transfer Scenarios and Projections of Poverty into the 1980s
Journal of Human Resources, 1981, 16, (1), 41-60 View citations (1)
1978
- A Comparison of Marginal Productivity and Earnings by Occupation
ILR Review, 1978, 31, (3), 368-378 View citations (14)
- Principles of Tax Transfer Integration and Carter's Welfare-Reform Proposal
Journal of Human Resources, 1978, 13, (3), 332-348
Edited books
2010
- Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
1997
- Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (46)
Chapters
2016
- Is There an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility☆
A chapter in Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, vol. 43, pp 355-405 View citations (2)
2000
- Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries
Chapter 05 in Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000, vol. 1, pp 261-307 View citations (94)
See also Working Paper Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg (1998) View citations (22) (1998)
1998
- The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?
Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)
See also Working Paper The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg (1995) View citations (12) (1995)
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