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Working Papers

2017

1. Employer-Provided Severance Pay: The Emergence of Job Displacement Insurance, 1930–1954
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
2. The Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Mystery
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
3. Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2016

4. Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
5. Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
6. The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article THE SIMPLE ANALYTICS OF JOB DISPLACEMENT INSURANCE, Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2015

7. Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (12)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (12)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2003) View citations (14)
   EPRU Working Paper Series, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics (2003) View citations (13)

2014

8. Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)

2013

9. Understanding Severance Pay
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article Understanding severance pay, Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, Asociación Cuadernos de Economía (2013) View citations (12) (2013)

2011

10. Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
11. Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
12. Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)

2010

13. The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)

2006

14. Insuring Displaced Workers: Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

1981

15. Economic Well-Being and Child Labor: The Inter action of Family and Industry
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

1976

16. Health, Family Structure, and Labor Supply
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Health, Family Structure, and Labor Supply, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1977) View citations (17) (1977)

Journal Articles

2023

1. How should job displacement wage losses be insured?
   IZA World of Labor, 2023, 446
   Also in IZA World of Labor, 2018, 446 (2018)

2019

2. THE SIMPLE ANALYTICS OF JOB DISPLACEMENT INSURANCE
   Journal of Risk & Insurance, 2019, 86, (2), 351-380 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance, IZA Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (3) (2016)

2018

3. Compensating displaced workers
   IZA World of Labor, 2018, 444
   Also in IZA World of Labor, 444

2013

4. Understanding severance pay
   Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 36, (102), 155-165 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Understanding Severance Pay, IZA Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (12) (2013)

1996

5. Imperfect 'tagging' in social insurance programs
   Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 62, (1-2), 183-207 View citations (62)

1992

6. The Internal Distribution of Union Rents: An Empirical Test of the Voting Power Model
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992, 74, (3), 439-45 View citations (4)

1991

7. Male Retirement Behavior in the United States, 1930–1950
   The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (3), 657-674 View citations (17)
8. Self-Screening in Targeted Public Transfer Programs
   Journal of Political Economy, 1991, 99, (4), 859-76 View citations (61)
9. The Health and Earnings of Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants: Comment
   American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (5), 1419-26 View citations (73)
10. The Job Search Behavior of Employed Youth
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 73, (4), 597-604 View citations (32)
11. The decline in private pension coverage in the United States
    Economics Letters, 1991, 36, (4), 419-423 View citations (8)

1989

12. Parental Altruism and Self-Interest: Child Labor among Late Nineteenth-Century American Families
    Economic Inquiry, 1989, 27, (4), 637-59 View citations (72)

1984

13. Disability Insurance and Male Labor Force Participation: A Response
    Journal of Political Economy, 1984, 92, (3), 542-49 View citations (20)

1982

14. Demographic Effects on Public Charity to the Aged
    Journal of Human Resources, 1982, 17, (1), 144-152 View citations (6)

1980

15. Racial Trends in Male Labor Force Participation
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (5), 911-20 View citations (23)
16. The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation
    Journal of Political Economy, 1980, 88, (1), 117-34 View citations (195)
17. Unemployment, the Allocation of Labor, and Optimal Government Intervention
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (4), 626-35 View citations (4)

1978

18. Intergenerational Wealth Transfers and the Educational Decisions of Male Youth: The Mother's Home Time Hypothesis
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1978, 92, (3), 521-524
19. The Autocorrelation of Earnings, Human Wealth Inequality, and Income Contingent Loans
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1978, 92, (4), 551-569 View citations (7)

1977

20. Health, Family Structure, and Labor Supply
    American Economic Review, 1977, 67, (4), 703-12 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Health, Family Structure, and Labor Supply, NBER Working Papers (1976) View citations (1) (1976)

1975

21. Intergenerational Wealth Transfers and the Educational Decisions of Male Youth
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1975, 89, (4), 603-617 View citations (9)
22. The United States Steel Consolidation: The Creation of Market Control
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1975, 18, (1), 181-219 View citations (6)

1974

23. The Cost of School Time, Foregone Earnings, and Human Capital Formation
    Journal of Political Economy, 1974, 82, (2), 251-66 View citations (13)
24. Time-Series Changes in Personal Income Inequality in the United States from 1939 with Projections to 1985: A Comment
    Journal of Political Economy, 1974, 82, (5), 1027-32

1973

25. Quit Rates Over Time: A Search and Information Approach
    American Economic Review, 1973, 63, (3), 390-401 View citations (16)

1972

26. Specific Human Capital: An Application to Quit Rates and Layoff Rates
    Journal of Political Economy, 1972, 80, (6), 1120-43 View citations (149)

Books

1980

1. Poverty and the Minimum Wage
   Books, American Enterprise Institute View citations (1)

Chapters

1987

1. The employment relationship: Job attachment, work effort, and the nature of contracts
   Chapter 14 in Handbook of Labor Economics, 1987, vol. 2, pp 789-848 View citations (14)