The theories of human capital and internal labor markets are used to analyze teacher mobility. With data for the San Diego school system, we find that (1) since teaching assignments within school systems do not differ in terms of salary, internal mobility of teachers is governed by such...

An important source of errors in transfer payments programs is the fraudulent misreporting of earnings received by recipients. We propose a model of the recipient's decision to report income and the expected penalties if caught engaging in fraud. We discuss several features of the detection and...

This paper applies meta-analytic techniques to evaluations of voluntary training programs to investigate whether impacts of government-funded training programs on earnings grow or deteriorate over time. For adult men and youth, we find some evidence that, after initially increasing, earnings...

Although increases in earnings that result from Employment and Training (E&T) programs typically come at the cost of losses of leisure to participants, this is almost never taken into account in cost-benefit analyses of E&T programs. This paper develops a method for adjusting for this bias and...

This article argues that the existence of a wage subsidy as the sole component of an income transfer system is both unlikely and undesirable. A mixed wage subsidy-public assistance program is defined. Using traditional analysis and new graphical methods developed in the article, the effects on...