Using the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data from the United States Census Bureau, I compute firm-level measures of labor market (monopsony) power. To generate these measures, I extend the dynamic model proposed by Manning (2003) and estimate the labor supply elasticity facing...

"Dieser Beitrag untersucht zuerst die Entwicklung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1974. Er behandelt hauptsächlich Fragen der Förderung der beruflichen Bildung, die Zumutbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen, die den Arbeitslosen durch die Arbeitsämter angeboten werden,...

We examine the extent to which assimilation and residential ethnic enclaves are associated with immigrant access to smoking-related fringe benefits. In particular, we consider access to office smoking bans and employer-sponsored smoking cessation programs. These worksite characteristics are...

A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...

The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we use longitudinal administrative data from over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to...

A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...

"Dieser Beitrag untersucht zuerst die Entwicklung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1974. Er behandelt hauptsächlich Fragen der Förderung der beruflichen Bildung, die Zumutbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen, die den Arbeitslosen durch die Arbeitsämter angeboten werden,...

Über Jahrzehnte hinweg lassen sich politische Reformversuche wechselnder Intensität im Gesundheitssystem nachweisen. Der Erfolg blieb ihnen allerdings oftmals versagt. Die Autoren gehen in ihrer empirischen Analyse den Anlässen für Steuerungsversuche in verschiedenen Teilbereichen des...