The effect of income taxation on the labor supply of prime age married men and women in
the United States is examined using econometric methods similar to those used in the …

Welfare gains from trade are reduced by adjustment costs associated with factor reallocation,
but most studies of the effects of trade on labor markets focus only on net employment …

The US Bureau of the Census imputes missing income items in the income supplement of
the Current Population Survey (CPS) by a technique commonly known as the CPS hot deck. …

Economists have developed an extensive literature examining the relationships between
inequality of outcomes and growth, but few research papers have investigated the relationship …

A large literature has recently developed which attempts to measure the marginal cost (shadow
price) of public funds.'The motiva-tion for much of this literature is the recognition that …

Reliable estimates of how tax incentives affect behavior are an essential input into the
formation of tax policy. However, one encounters a number of difficult econometric problems in …

The official US government figures showed an increase in the poverty rate from 11.1 percent
in 1973 to 13.8 percent in 1995. However, some maintain that this upward trend is due to …

This paper uses the first six waves of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the impact
of pensions on expected retirement age, on the probability of being retired in each wave …

In the United States, inequality in the distribution of economic rewards, such as income and
wealth, has widened greatly in recent decades. This has led to a spirited debate regarding …

This paper is a chapter in our forthcoming monograph, Job Creation, Job Destruction, and
International Competition (WE Upjohn Institute, 2003), and expands on the ideas advanced in …