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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...

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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...

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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a … focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study … database. We investigate the change of private income and social benefits following synthetic cohorts for two decades. Our …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment rates, earnings levels, and net incomes as young adults...

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Poverty and income maintenance in old age: A cross-national view of low income older women

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Sandstrom, Susanna - 2005

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...

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Grazing, goods and girth: determinants and effects

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...

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Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant children in rich countries

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Robson, Karen; Wing, Coady; … - 2009

children. For all of the fourteen countries in the combined sample, children in migrant families have greater market-income … poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 …The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions …

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