This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor
market outcomes such as wages, earnings, employment, hours, occupational choice, job …

This chapter examines the labor supply effects of social insurance programs. We argue that
this topic deserves separate treatment from the rest of the labor supply literature because …

The magnitude of the interaction effect in nonlinear models does not equal the marginal
effect of the interaction term, can be of opposite sign, and its statistical significance is not …

Over the past 3 decades, the US Temporary Help Services (THS) industry grew five times
more rapidly than overall employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 46 states adopted …

This paper explains why computing the marginal effect of a change in two variables is more
complicated in nonlinear models than in linear models. The command inteff computes the …

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate disabled
workers and outlaws discrimination against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although …

The authors investigate potential discrimination against people with disabilities through a
field experiment that sent job applications to 6,016 accounting positions for which the …

We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections
adopted by US state courts during the last three decades. We find robust evidence that one …

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?" Developments in Research
Methods and their Application"(volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …