We compare the economic approach to research on personnel and organizational design to approaches from behavioral disciplines. Instead of a survey of the field, our emphasis is on topics which are important in organizational research outside of economics, yet have been little emphasized by...

This study analyzes trends in part-time employment in the United States for 1964-1993. The conventional wisdom holds that a permanent shift has occurred toward part-time employment--particularly involuntary part-time jobs--in recent years. The data show a cyclical increase during the latest...

This paper analyzes whether people who enter the labor market during economic downturns suffer a setback in their careers that can last indefinitely. I test whether recessions experienced in a person's state of birth between the ages of 16 and 25 have effects that persist at the individual level...