Working Papers

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Aughinbaugh, Alison

• "Neighborhoods, Test Scores, and Educational Outcomes" (with Donna S. Rothstein)
• "The Effect of High School Curriculum on College Decisions: A Comparison of the NLSY79 and the NLSY97"
• "Patterns of marriage and divorce in the NLSY79" (with Omar Robles and Hugette Sun)
• "Attrition in the NLSY97" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on 10th Anniversary of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (2008)
• "The Relationship between Cooperativeness and Unit Non-Response among Participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (2006)
• "Reports of Income under Different Bracketing Techniques: Evidence from the NLSY79" (with Rosella M. Gardecki), Unpublished Working Paper, January 2005.
• Other papers by Alison Aughinbaugh

Dalton, Michael R.

• “The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata” (with Jeffrey Groen, Mark Loewenstein, David Piccone, and Anne Polivka). BLS Working Paper 536, July 2021. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.
• "Family Transfers in Response to Unemployment", Working Paper, 2013.
• "Resources, Composition and Family Decision-Making" (with V. Joseph Hotz and Duncan Thomas), Working Paper, 2013.
• "Intrafamily Transfers and Health Status: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with Dan LaFave), Working Paper, 2013.
• "Family Transfers in Response to Hurricanes", Working Paper, 2013.

Dey, Matthew S.

• “Variation in the Impact of Explicit Oligopsony by Occupation,” (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker). Presented at the ASSA 2020 meetings.
• “Megafirms and Monopsonists: Not the Same Employers, Not the Same Workers,” (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker). Presented at the NBER Summer Institute in July 2019.
• “On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages”  (with Mark Loewenstein).  BLS Working Paper 514,  March 2019.
  
  • Data for “On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages”: SAS   Stata  
• "Quarterly Benchmarking for the Current Employment Survey" (with Mark A. Loewenstein). BLS Working Paper 496, June 2017.
• "Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Temporary Help Services: A Research Update" (with Susan Houseman and Anne Polivka). BLS Working Paper 493, January 2017.
• "Welfare and Mobility Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance." Unpublished Working Paper, September 2002.
• "Household Bargaining and Labor Market Dynamics" (with Chris Flinn). Unpublished Working Paper, August 2001.
• Other papers by Matthew S. Dey

Frazis, Harley

• "Training and Jobs Across the Career: An Empirical Investigation" (with Mark A. Loewenstein). BLS Working Paper 500, September 2017.
• "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Mark Loewenstein), BLS Working Paper 398, August 2006.
• "What Do Male Nonworkers Do? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey" (with Jay Stewart), November 2005.
• Other papers by Harley Frazis

Groen, Jeffrey A.

• “The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata” (with Michael Dalton, Mark Loewenstein, David Piccone, and Anne Polivka). BLS Working Paper 536, July 2021. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.
• Other papers by Jeffrey A. Groen

Handwerker, Elizabeth Weber

• “Variation in the Impact of Explicit Oligopsony by Occupation,” (with Matthew Dey). Presented at the ASSA 2020 meetings.
• "Megafirms and Monopsonists: Not the Same Employers, Not the Same Workers,” (with Matthew Dey). Presented at the NBER Summer Institute in July 2019.
• "Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Growing Wage Inequality in the United States." Presented at the NBER Summer Institute in July 2018.
• "Variation in the Cost of Job Loss by Worker Skill: Evidence Using Matching Data from California, 1991-2000," (with Till von Wachter), Working paper, January 2011.
• "Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000" (with Andrew Hildreth and Till von Wachter). CES Working Paper 09-14.
• Other papers by Elizabeth W. Handwerker

Loewenstein, Mark A.

• “The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata” (with Michael Dalton, Jeffrey Groen, David Piccone, and Anne Polivka). BLS Working Paper 536, July 2021. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.
• “On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages”  (with Matthew Dey).  BLS Working Paper 514,  March 2019.
  
  • Data for “On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages”: SAS   Stata  
• "Training and Jobs Across the Career: An Empirical Investigation" (with Harley Frazis). BLS Working Paper 500, September 2017.
• "Quarterly Benchmarking for the Current Employment Survey" (with Matthew Dey). BLS Working Paper 496, June 2017.
• "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Harley Frazis). August 2009.
• Other papers by Mark A. Loewenstein

Mason, Lowell G.

• Other papers by Lowell G. Mason

Piccone, David

• “The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata”(with Michael Dalton, Jeffrey Groen, Mark Loewenstein, and Anne Polivka). BLS Working Paper 536, July 2021. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.

Polivka, Anne

• “The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata” (with Michael Dalton, Jeffrey Groen, Mark Loewenstein, and David Piccone). BLS Working Paper 536, July 2021. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Inequality.
• "Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Temporary Help Services: A Research Update" (with Matthew Dey and Susan Houseman). BLS Working Paper 493, January 2017.
• "Low Wage Workers, The Minimum Wage and Job Turnover" (with Rosemary Hyson). Unpublished working paper. March 2003.
• "Predictors and Payoffs of On-the-Job Search" (with Rosemary Hyson). Unpublished working paper. March 2003.
• "Using Earnings Data from the Monthly Current Population Survey" Revised version presented at Southern Economics Meetings, 2000, Original Version presented at American Economics Association Meeting 2000. Revised version available on the SSRN.
• Other papers by Anne Polivka

Rothstein, Donna S.

• "An Analysis of Long-term Unemployment." January 2015. Unpublished paper.
• "Breastfeeding and Child Obesity." October 2011. Unpublished paper. Presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in 2011.
• Other papers by Donna S. Rothstein

Sun, Hugette

• "Child Support Policy and Divorce." Working Paper, December 2009.
• "Does Trade Liberalization Affect Labor Market Churning?" (with Mina Kim and Shintaro Yamaguchi) Working Paper, June 2009.
• "Child Support Policy and Fertility." Working Paper, October 2008.
• "Child Support Guidelines and the Work Incentives of Married Mothers." (with John Hore) Working Paper, September 2008.

 

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