Traditional neoclassical microeconomic theory views the production function as a "black box" where homogenous inputs go in and output comes out. Differences in labor productivity between firms are mainly due to technological constraints facing the firm.

This thesis develops an extended demographic model of the Chicago region which projects the educational attributes of the population. The region is further subdivided into two zones, city and suburb, and two racial/ethnic groups are identified and disaggregated according to gender. Central to...

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore differences in consumption behavior between consumers who experienced upgraded social status and consumers who did not experience such change. The study was designed to offer marketers information about changes in consumption behavior that occur...

The transfer of government services to the private sector, or privatization as it is generally called, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, few attempts have been made to investigate the issue from a labor relations perspective. This dissertation attempts to alleviate...

This study looks at recent changes in managerial labor markets in terms of changes in the relationship between tenure and earnings. Many product markets have become less stable during the past decade with the deregulation of several industries and increases in foreign competition. As a result,...

The purpose of the research is to study the substitution of purchasing restaurant meals for the wife's housework time. Based on the theory of time allocation, the wife's housework time was analyzed and the substitution and income effects were empirically estimated.

The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in...

This paper proposes a conceptual model of work group empowerment and describes a study that was designed to evaluate the model. The conceptual model specifies directional relations among the antecedents, dimensions, and outcomes of empowered work groups. The model hypothesized that the effects...

This study demonstrates that Pigouvian taxes derived from the socially optimum shadow prices of shared resources may result in serious deviations between users' response and the socially optimal resource use when the users' profit motive is not shared by the social planner and the resultant...

The three essays cover the economic, political and institutional aspects of the impact drug smuggling activities have had on the Colombian economy. In the first essay, I examine drug smuggling activities as factors of institutional change forcing Colombia to adopt an export-led growth model of...