Presentation to the Global Economic Outlook (GEO) Conference, West Palm Beach, Fla., March. 8, 2005

Presentation to the Business and Community Leaders Luncheon, The Lannom Center, Dyersburg, Tenn. - April 10, 2001

Presentation at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 9, 2005

Presentation at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 9, 2005

Presentation to the Global Economic Outlook (GEO) Conference, West Palm Beach, Fla., March. 8, 2005

Presentation to the Business and Community Leaders Luncheon, The Lannom Center, Dyersburg, Tenn. - April 10, 2001

"In finding a career, workers tend to make numerous job changes, with the majority of 'complex' changes (i.e. those involving changes of industry) occurring relatively early in their working lives. This pattern suggests that workers tend to experiment with different types of work before settling...

"Through their influence on the cross-sectional distribution of productivity across firms and workers, job creation and destruction likely have an impact on the rate at which aggregate productivity changes over time. However, the nature of this effect is not, a priori, clear. While a broad...

In this paper we study whether location-specific price variation likely affects statistical inference and theoretical interpretation in the empirical implementation of human capital earnings functions. We demonstrate, in a model of local labor markets, that the ?return to schooling" is a...

This paper examines the factors that influence transitions into self-employment, paying particular attention to gender differences. We find that: (i) men are more responsive to the wage differential between wage/salaried employment and self-employment; (ii) liquidity constraints are more...