This article presents the results of an investigation into the time allocation and earnings of artists. Artists are unique because they spend substantial amounts of time both at art work and at non-art work while earning the majority of their income from the latter. In order to empirically...

Recently developed effort regulation models argue that labor markets are segmented because of differences in the technology of supervision across firms. primary jobs pay above market clearing wages because these jobs are difficult to monitor. Secondary jobs, in contrast, pose no monitoring...

In 1983, 81 percent of white male full-time workers participated in employer-supported health plans and 54 percent in employer-supported pension plans. White full-time females, in contrast, participated at the rates of 71 percent and 43 percent. This study measures the unexplained portion of...