The percentage of working-age men in the United States who were fully active in the labor market decreased over the 1975-1992 period ("fully active" means working 2080 hours in a year). Similarly, the extent to which men were less than fully active increased. When one considers the number of...

In this paper, we track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 1980–81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991, nearly a decade later. We present measures of the economic...

We summarize procedures for assessing the benefits and costs of using labor inputs in public projects. Examples are provided to illustrate how information on labor inputs can be analyzed and presented such that, should the analyst choose, labor services generate elements of both benefit and cost...

Brennecke, Ralph: Neue Instrumente zur Gestaltung der Verteilungs- und Sozialpolitik, die Simulation von Entscheidungen auf mikroanalytischer Ebene. Korreferat zu Robert H. Haveman: Economic effects of tax-transfer policy, the potentials and problems of micro-data simulations. S. 436-443