A firm's decision to contract out for business support services may be influenced by the wage
and benefit savings it could realize, the volatility of its output demand, and the availability of …

This study provides direct evidence concerning the relationship between experience and
performance among managerial and professional employees doing similar work in two major …

The stylized fact that seniority and earnings in a cross-section are positively related, even
after controlling for total labor market experience, has served as the basis for theoretical …

Recent work by David Lilien has argued that the positive correlation between the dispersion
of employment growth rates across sectors (σ) and the unemployment rate implies that …

IN THE FIRST WEEK of January 1996, AT&T announced it was restructuring its operations
and reducing its managerial work force by 40,000. This was only the latest in a string of widely …

This study uses computerized personnel microdata on the white male managerial and
professional employees at a major US corporation to address the following question: Can the …

AS THESE QUOTATIONS from selected macroeconomists make clear, the debate over the
cyclicality of real wages has a very long history and is filled with conflicting hypotheses and …

This article examines nonresponse in a large government survey, the American Time Use
Survey (ATUS), which interviews persons in households previously interviewed in the Current …

The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together
with other key economic dataâ€" price and employment statisticsâ€" are widely used as …

Laws in most Western European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right
to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. …