The study of labor market segmentation and the estimation of the deadweight loss due to policy distortions reflected in wage structures require analyses of labor force surveys. These data are increasingly available in most countries. But evaluations of labor market reforms are uncommon. The lack...

The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing power-parity prices increased in the world form 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 170s. In the later period the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately...

Empirical research on US immigrants is reviewed: their productivity and assimilation; their contribution and use of public services; and their impact on native Americans. I discuss the characteristics of cohorts of immigrants that enter the US at different times, and then quantify the...

Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for Africans than for whites. These rates increased...

Two explanations for the weakening of the nuclear family are increased state support of poor unmarried mothers, and increased wage earning opportunities for women relative to those available for men. This paper tests both of these hypotheses by estimating a model for the joint determination of...

This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsability system reforms in China from 1970 through 1987 and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility changes as measured in the in-depth fertility survey....

The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing-power prices increased in the world from 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 1970s. In the laterperiod the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately two-thirds...

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...

Labour unions are an important economic and political force in South Africa. Inequality in wage rates is among the largest in the world in South Africa, with African and white workers receiving wages that differ by a factor of five. The complex role of unions in closing and creating this wage...