This paper investigates the effects of varying consumption patterns for families with and without children on measured trends in child poverty. The authors first use data from consumer expenditure surveys to calculate price indices by family type. They next examine the effect of using these...

This paper investigates tenure effects on employee retention under varying labor market condition. We develop simple models of the likelihood of employer default (through early dismissals) on delayed payment and specific human capital contracts, and the predicted tenure pattern in these defaults...

This paper investigates the causes of higher tenure, and lower turnover, for workers at large plants or firms. The primary hypothesis investigated is that long-term employment relationships in large plants and firms stem from (1) the greater capacity of large employers to provide job...

This paper investigates the effect demographic-specific inflation rates on the measured well being of two population groups - families with and without children, and families with different educational attainment. Out major findings are (1) families with children generally experienced lower...

In this paper, we propose an analytical framework suggesting that wage nonpayment in the Russian state sector and privatized factories, which resulted from acute cash flow problems in both, reflected an implicit contract among the government, managers and labor against worker layoff. We analyze...

The authors use data from consumer expenditure surveys to investigate the impact on trends in real wage differentials of using group-specific price indexes. They find that inflation rates decrease monotonically with the education of the household head throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and...