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...

This paper examines several aspects of the training and retention of Air Force electronic specialists. The major goal of the study is to investigate the responsiveness of the re-enlistment rate to changes in Air Force remuneration. The study is based on data obtained from the Personnel Research...

In this paper we trace the evolution of economic search theory and the concomitant accumulation of insights so as to elucidate is successes as well as its central location within the economics of information. The reason for the phenomenal success of search theory is twofold. First, Stigler’s...

The main intention of this essay is to survey the recent literature on the retirement decision. It seemed that a study of retirement would be misleading unless it were coupled with the entire path leading to this decision. Pursuit of this more ambitious goal was made feasible by several recent...

Of welfare-to-work programs evaluated by random assignment, two stand out as having exceptionally large estimated effects: one in Riverside, California, and the other in Portland, Oregon. The authors use data from 24 evaluations and the tools of meta-analysis to examine why. The findings...