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Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business : The Case of Uber

Cramer, Judd - 2016

In most cities, the taxi industry is highly regulated and utilizes technology developed in the 1940s. Ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, which use modern internet-based mobile technology to connect passengers and drivers, have begun to compete with traditional taxis. This paper...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND …-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax data from the Internal Revenue Service for 2000 to 2016. We conclude that …

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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA : Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009

Current Population Survey (CPS) data, a new wave of research based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return data reports …

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Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009

There are several ways to measure fatness and obesity, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The primary measure for tracking the prevalence of obesity has historically been body mass index (BMI). This paper compares long-run trends in the prevalence of obesity when obesity is defined...

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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we analyze trends in US income inequality …

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The Changing Landscape of Pensions in the United States

Poterba, James - 2007

The pension landscape in the U.S. has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. Saving through personal retirement accounts has become the principal form of retirement saving. We document the transition from a defined benefit system to a personal account system and show the effect it has had...

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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper has three goals; first, to place U.S. job growth in international perspective by exploring cross-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater...

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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, we compare the labor earnings mobility of prime age men and women in the United States and Germany...

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The Military Pension, Compensation, and Retirement of U.S. Air Force Pilots

Ausink, John A. - 1993

This paper uses the option value model of Stock and Wise to analyze the departure patterns of a sample of pilots in the United States Air Force. Pilot compensation and the military pension are described, as are some details of the option value model and two other models: the Annualized Cost of...

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Union Membership in the United States : The Decline Continues

Farber, Henry S. - 1992

analyzing new data for 1991 from the General Social Survey and for 1992 from our own household survey on worker preferences for … union representation. When combined with earlier data for 1977 from the Quality of Employment Survey and for 1984 from a … survey conducted for the AFL-CIO, we are able to decompose changes in unionization into changes in demand and changes in …

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