In this paper, we first comment on the recent (1996) report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, appointed by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the recommendations it contains. We then describe some of the initiatives currently underway at the Bureau of Labor...

The objectives of this review are threefold: (1) to characterize the empirical literature on the cyclical behavior of real wages; (2) to identify the sources of the differences in results across studies; and (3) to enumerate key factors that determine the cyclicality of real wages. Given a host...

Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Data Users Want, Need, and Use -- 3 Business Register -- 4 Harmonization of Questionnaires and Data Collection Processes -- 5 Sampling and Estimation -- 6 Editing, Imputation,...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounting and Data Foundations -- 3 Home Production -- 4 The Role of the Family in the Production of Human Capital -- 5 Education -- 6 Health -- 7 The Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors -- 8 The Environment --...

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings...