Journal of Labor Economics

1983 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1986

Delayed Payment Contracts and a Firm's Propensity to Hire Older Workers pp. 439-57

Robert Hutchens

Reputations for Safety: Market Performance and Policy Remedies pp. 458-72

Lorne Carmichael

Layoffs, Recruitment, and Interfirm Mobility pp. 473-502

Arthur Hosios

The Growing Supply of Physicians: Has the Market Become More Competitive? pp. 503-37

Monica Noether

Does Redistribution Reduce Inequality? pp. 538-59

James Davies

A Model of Involuntary Unemployment and Wage Rigidity: Worker Incentives and the Threat of Dismissal pp. 560-81

Roger Sparks

Trade Unions and the Efficiency of the Natural Rate of Unemployment pp. 582-95

Christopher Pissarides

Volume 4, issue 3, 1986

Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families pp. S1-39

Gary Becker and Nigel Tomes

Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families: Comment pp. S40-47

Robert Willis

Unobservable Family and Individual Contributions to the Distributionsof Income and Wealth pp. S48-79

J R Kearl and Clayne L Pope

Unobservable Family and Individual Contributions to the Distributionsof Income and Wealth: Comment pp. S80-82

Sherwin Rosen

Family Effects in Simple Models of Education, Occupational Status and pp. S83-115

Robert M Hauser and William H Sewell

Family Effects in Simple Models of Education, Occupational Status and Earnings: Findings from the Wisconsin and Kalamazoo Studies: Comment pp. 116-20

Barry Chiswick

Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings pp. S121-45

Jere Behrman and Paul Taubman

Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings: Comment pp. S146-50

Zvi Griliches

The Strategic Bequest Motive pp. S151-82

B. Douglas Bernheim, Andrei Shleifer and Lawrence Summers

The Effect of Annuity Insurance and Savings and Inequality pp. S183-207

Laurence Kotlikoff, John Shoven and Avia Spivak

The Effect of Annuity Insurance and Savings and Inequality: Comment pp. S208-15

Andrew Abel

Estimating the Personal Distribution of Income with Adjustment for Within-Family Variation pp. S216-39

Edward Lazear and Robert T Michael

Estimating the Personal Distribution of Income with Adjustment for Within-Family Variation: Comment pp. S239-44

James D Smith

His and Hers: Gender Differences in Work and Income, 1959-1979 pp. S245-72

Victor Fuchs

His and Hers: Gender Differences in Work and Income, 1959-1979: Comment pp. S273-77

Alan Blinder

The Changing Economy and the Family pp. S278-87

Theodore Schultz

Racial Differences in the Stability of High Earnings among Young Men pp. 301-16

Linda Loury

The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence pp. 317-40

W Viscusi

Implicit Labor Contracts to Explain Turnover pp. 341-54

Elazar Berkovitch

Insurance and Labor Market Contracting: An Analysis of the Capital Market Assumption pp. 355-75

John Haltiwanger and Michael Waldman

A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy,Discrimination, and Keynesian Unemployment pp. 376-414

Jeremy I Bulow and Lawrence Summers

Nonconvexity in General Equilibrium Labor Markets pp. 415-37

Jeffrey Coles

Volume 4, issue 2, 1986

Differences in Male and Female Job-quitting Behavior pp. 151-67

Mark E Meitzen

Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old? pp. 168-92

Barry Chiswick

Collective Bargaining and Union Membership Effects on the Wages of Male Youths pp. 193-211

Arthur Blakemore, Janet C Hunt and B F Kiker

Union Work Rules and Efficiency in the Building Trades pp. 212-42

Steven Allen

Some Economic and Demographic Consequences of Mental Illness pp. 243-56

Ann Bartel and Paul Taubman

Logit Estimates of Strike Incidence from Canadian Contract Data pp. 257-76

Morley Gunderson, John Kervin and Frank Reid

Compensating Differentials for Cyclical and Noncyclical Unemployment: The Interaction between Investors' and Employees' Risk Aversion pp. 277-300

Elizabeth H Li

Volume 4, issue 1, 1986

Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex: A Historical Analysis pp. 1-27

Claudia Goldin

Wages, Effort, and Incentive Compatibility in Life-Cycle Employment Contracts pp. 28-49

Peter Kuhn

Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Cyclical Layoff Incentives pp. 50-65

Eleanor Brown

On the Contract Curve: A Test of Alternative Models of Collective Bargaining pp. 66-81

Randall Eberts and Joe Stone

Labor Supply Response to Welfare Programs: A Dynamic Analysis pp. 82-104

David Blau and Philip Robins

The Union Impact on Profits: Evidence from Industry Price-Cost Margin Data pp. 105-33

Paula B Voos and Lawrence R Mishel

Labor Migration and Risk Aversion in Less Developed Countries pp. 134-49

Eliakim Katz and Oded Stark

Volume 3, issue 4, 1985

A Foundation for Three Popular Assumptions in Job-matching Models pp. 403-20

John Dagsvik, Boyan Jovanovic and Andrea Shepard

Wage Bargaining, Labor Turnover, and the Business Cycle: A Model with Asymmetric Information pp. 421-33

Motty Perry and Gary Solon

Labor Turnover, Wage Structures, and Moral Hazard: The Inefficiency of Competitive Markets pp. 434-62

Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz

Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants pp. 463-89

George Borjas

The Elasticity of Substitution Revisited: The Effects of Secular Changes in Labor Force Structure pp. 490-507

Carmel Chiswick

An Investigation of the Extent and Consequences of Measurement Error in Labor-Economic Survey Data pp. 508-32

Greg Duncan and Daniel H Hill

Volume 3, issue 3, 1985

Old Boy Networks as Screening Mechanisms pp. 255-67

Garth Saloner

Children as Collective Goods and Divorce Settlements pp. 268-92

Yoram Weiss and Robert Willis

The Joint Determination of Household Membership and Market Work: The Case of Young Men pp. 293-316

Marjorie B McElroy

Real Wage Indices pp. 317-36

Jeffrey Coles and Paul Harte-Chen

Government Programs, Job Search Requirements, and the Duration of Unemployment pp. 337-62

Michael C Keeley and Philip Robins

Affirmative Action as Earnings Redistribution: The Targeting of Compliance Reviews pp. 363-84

Jonathan Leonard

The Endogeneity of Union Status: An Empirical Test pp. 385-402

Gregory Duncan and Duane E Leigh

Volume 3, issue 2, 1985

Involuntary Terminations, Unemployment, and Job Matching: A Test of Job Search Theory pp. 109-23

Peter Gottschalk and Tim Maloney

Cautionary Tails about Arbitrary Deletion of Observations; or, Throwing the Variance Out with the Bathwater pp. 124-52

Glenn MacDonald and Chris Robinson

Estimation of Unemployment Duration from Grouped Data: A Comparative Study pp. 153-74

G M Baker and Pravin Trivedi

Unemployment and Recruitment with Heterogeneous Labor pp. 175-87

Arthur Hosios

Worker Asymmetric Information and Employment Distortions pp. 188-208

Russell Cooper

The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work pp. 209-36

Gary Burtless and Robert Moffitt

The 1983 Social Security Reforms and Labor Supply Adjustments of Older Individuals in the Long Run pp. 237-53

Alan Gustman and Thomas L Steinmeier

Volume 3, issue 1, 1985

Intercountry Comparisons of Labor Force Trends and of Related Developments: An Overview pp. S1-32

Jacob Mincer

How Changes in Labor Demand Affect Unemployed Workers pp. 1-10

Kenneth Burdett and Jan I Ondrich

The Added Worker Effect pp. 11-37

Shelly Lundberg

Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor pp. S33-58

Gary Becker

Hourly Earnings in the United States: Another Look at Unionization, Schooling, Sickness, and Unemployment Using PSID Data pp. 38-69

Gopa Chowdhury and Stephen Nickell

Time-Series Growth in the Female Labor Force pp. S59-90

James Smith and Michael P Ward

Implicit Contracts with Heterogeneous Labor pp. 70-90

Larry Samuelson

Monopsony and the Lifetime Relation between Wages and Productivity pp. 91-100

Yannis Ioannides and Christopher Pissarides

The Trend in the Male-Female Wage Gap in the United States pp. S91-116

June O'Neill

The Effects of Unions on Employment and Productivity: An Unresolved Contradiction pp. 101-08

Walter Wessels

Consequences of the Rise in Female Labor Force Participation Rates: Questions and Probes pp. S117-46

Robert T Michael

Why Are More Women Working in Britain? pp. S147-76

Heather E Joshi, Richard Layard and Susan J Owen

An Analysis of Women's Labor Force Participation in France: Cross-Section Estimates and Time-Series Evidence pp. S177-200

Michelle Riboud

Trends in Labor Force Participation of Spanish Women: An Interpretive Essay pp. S201-17

Feliciano Hernandez Iglesias and Michelle Riboud

An Economic Analysis of Female Work Participation, Education, and Fertility: Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Federal Republic of Germany pp. S218-34

Wolfgang Franz

The Emergence of the Working Wife in Holland pp. S235-55

Joop Hartog and Jules Theeuwes

Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in Sweden pp. S256-74

Siv Gustafsson and Roger Jacobsson

A Model of Female Labor Supply in Italy Using Cohort Data pp. S275-92

Ugo Colombino and Bianca De Stavola

Women in the Australian Labor Force: Trends, Causes, and Consequences pp. S293-309

Robert Gregory, P McMahon and B Whittingham

Jewish Mother Goes to Work: Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Women in Israel, 1955-1980 pp. S310-27

Yoram Ben-Porath and Reuben Gronau

Work and Family Roles of Soviet Women: Historical Trends and Cross-Section Analysis pp. S328-54

Gur Ofer and Aaron Vinokur

An Analysis of Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in Japan pp. S355-74

Haruo Shimada and Yoshio Higuchi

Welfare Economics of Policies toward Women pp. S375-96

Glen Cain