DPRPD Publications

Giandrea, Michael D.

  • Older workers and short-term jobs: patterns and determinants,” with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn. Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 135, No. 5, May 2012, pp.19-32.
  • Early Retirement:The Dawn of a New Era?” with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn. TIAA-CREF Institute Policy Brief, July 2011.
  • Reentering the labor force after retirement,” with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn. Monthly Labor Review, June 2011, pp. 34 - 42.
  • “Bridge Jobs: A Comparison Across Cohorts,” with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn. Research on Aging, Sept. 2009.
  • “Self Employment as a Step in the Retirement Process,” (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). Issue Brief 15 for Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College, Sept. 2008.
  • “The Role of Bridge Jobs after Career Employment,” (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). Issue Brief 6 for Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College, April 2007.
  • “Retirement Patterns from Career Employment,” (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). The Gerontologist, 46, (2006), pp. 514-523.
  • “Are Traditional Retirements a Thing of the Past? New Evidence on Retirement Patterns and Bridge Jobs,” Business Perspectives, 18 (Fall/Winter 2006) Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research: The University of Memphis.
  • Working Papers by Michael Giandrea

Meyer, Peter Benjamin

  • “Workplace organization and innovation”. (with Cindy Zoghi and Robert D. Mohr) Canadian Journal of Economics 43:2 (May 2010), 622-639.
  • “Who had an occupation? Changing Boundaries in Historical U.S. Census Data.” Historical Social Resarch 34:3 (2009), 149-167.
  • Preliminary Estimates of Multifactor Productivity Growth” (with Michael J. Harper). Monthly Labor Review, June 2005, pp. 32-43.
  • Book review of Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy: A Transatlantic Perspective by Greenan, L’Horty, and Mairesse for Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie. Vol. 81, No. 3, 2004.
  • Entries for "Henry Cort”, “Siemens-Martin process”, and “Machine tools industry” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003).
  • The Weeks Report from the 1880 Census, online. Edited. 2001-4.
  • Online Glossary of Research Economics. 1997-2009. At http://econterms.com.
  • Integrating an Economics Glossary into any Web Site” (with Martin Poulter). Computers in Higher Education Economics Review. Vol. 13, No. 2. 1999.
  • Working Papers by Peter Meyer

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff

  • Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time”, (with Charlene Kalenkoski) Labour Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2012, pp.211-221.
  • Single Mother’s Time Preference, Smoking, and Enriching Childcare: Evidence from Time Diaries”, (with Younghwan Song) Eastern Economic Journal forthcoming
  • Bringing Work Home: Implications for BLS Productivity Measures”, (with Lucy Eldridge). Monthly Labor Review , Vo1. 133, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 18-35.
  • “Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students”, (with Charlene Kalenkoski). Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, March 2010, pp. 469-496.
  • “Does Working While in High School Reduce U.S. Study Time?”, (with Charlene Kalenkoski). Social Indicators Research, Vol.93, No. 1, 2009.
  • Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures”, (with Lucy Eldridge). In Productivity Measurement and Analysis: Proceedings from OECD workshops, Julien Dupont and Pierre Sollberger (Eds.), Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2008, pp 179-209.
  • “Which Workers Gain Upon Adopting a Computer?”, (with Cindy Zoghi). Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 2007, pp. 423-444.
  • “The Effect of Child Gender on Parents’ Labor Supply: An Examination of Natives, Immigrants, and their Children”, (with Jennifer Ward-Batts). American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2007, pp.402-406.
  • “Who gains from computer use?”, (with Cindy Zoghi). Perspectives on labour and income, Vol.6, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 3-12.
  • “Returning to the Returns to Computer Use”, (with Cindy Zoghi). American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2005.
  • “Evidence on Youth Employment, Earnings, and Parental Transfers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997”, Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2001, pp. 795-822.
  • Working Papers by Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

Powers, Susan

  • “Productivity Measurement in a Decentralized Statistical System: Challenges and Opportunities”, (with Robert E. Yuskavage) Parallel Session 4A: Productivity Measurement: Methodology and International Comparisons, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), 29th General Conference, Joensuu, Finland, August 2006.
  • “An Integrated BEA/BLS Production Account: A First Step and Theoretical Considerations”, (with Barbara M. Fraumeni, Michael J. Harper, and Robert E. Yuskavage). In Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld and William D. Nordhaus (Eds.), A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2006.
  • “The Cyclicality of Productivity Measures: Are There Increasing Returns?”, (with Michael J. Harper). Presented at the Society of Government Economists, Allied Social Sciences Meeting, January 1993.
  • Statistical needs in Eastern Europe.”, Monthly Labor Review, March 1992, pp. 18–28.
  • “Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition: Eastern Europe in the 1990’s”, Proceedings Volume for the Conference on Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition: Eastern Europe in the 1990’s, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Eurostat, held February 14-16, 1991 in Washington, D.C.
  • “Cyclicality of Labor Productivity Measures”, (with Lawrence J. Fulco and Michael J. Harper). Presented at the Atlantic Economic Association Meeting, December 1990.
  • “Cyclical Movements in Bureau of Labor Statistics Multifactor Productivity Measures and Capacity Utilization”, BLS Working Paper 128, August 1989.
  • The Role of Capital Discards in Multifactor Productivity Measurement”, Monthly Labor Review, June 1986, pp. 27-35.
  • Working Papers by Susan Powers

Stewart, Jay

  • “How Does Nonmarket Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?”, (with Harley Frazis). Journal of Population Economics 24(1), January 2011, pp.3-22.
  • “The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 64(1), October 2010, pp.181-20.
  • Time-use Surveys: Issues in Data Collection on Multitasking”, (with Bob Drago). Monthly Labor Review 133(8), August 2010, pp. 17-31.
  • “Comparing Hours Worked per Job in the Current Population Survey and the American Time Use Survey”, (with Harley Frazis). Social Indicators Research. special issue, 93(1), August 2009, pp. 191-195.
  • “Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?”, (with Harley Frazis). Forthcoming in Labor in the New Economy, Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer, eds., NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  • “The Time Use of Nonworking Men”, in How Do We Spend Our Time? Evidence From the American Time Use Survey, Jean Kimmel, ed. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008.
  • “Using March CPS Data to Analyze Labor Market Transitions”, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 32(2-3), 2007, pp. 177-197.
  • “Where Does the Time Go? Concepts and Measurement in the American Time Use Survey”,(with Harley Frazis), in Hard to Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Memory of Zvi Griliches, Ernst Berndt and Charles Hulten, eds., NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Comparing Childcare Measures in the ATUS and Earlier Time-Use Studies”, (with Dori Allard, Suzanne Bianchi, and Vanessa Wight), Monthly Labor Review 130(5), May 2007.
  • How Do Older Americans Spend Their Time?”, (with Rachel Krantz-Kent) Monthly Labor Review 130(5), May 2007.
  • “Male Nonworkers: Who Are They and Who Supports Them?”, Demography, 43(3), August 2006, pp. 537-552.
  • “Assessing Alternative Indexes for Comparing Activity Profiles”, Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 3(1), August 2006, pp. 49-59.
  • “Data Watch: The American Time Use Survey”, (with Daniel Hamermesh and Harley Frazis), Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(1), Winter 2005, pp. 221-232.
  • What Can Time Use Data Tell Us About Hours of Work”, (with Harley Frazis), Monthly Labor Review 127(12), December 2004, pp. 3-9.
  • “Assessing the Bias Associated with Alternative Contact Strategies in Telephone Time-Use Surveys”, Survey Methodology 28(2), December 2002.
  • “Contact Strategies and Activity Bias in Telephone Time-Use Surveys”, in the Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 2001.
  • “Did Job Security Decline in the 1990s?”, in On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? D. Neumark, Ed., Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
  • “Why Collect Time-Use Data?”, (with Mary Joyce), in the Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1999.
  • “The CES Concepts Pilot Study: Design and Analysis of Responses”,(with Karen Goldenberg, Anthony Gomes, and Marilyn Manser), in the Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1999.
  • “Earnings Concepts and Data Availability for the Current Employment Statistics Survey: Findings from Cognitive Interviews”, (with Karen Goldenberg), in the Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods+, American Statistical Association, 1999.
  • What Can We Learn From Time-Use Data?”, (with Mary Joyce), Monthly Labor Review 122(8), August 1999, pp. 3-6.
  • ““Why Do Different Wage Series Tell Different Stories?”, (with Katharine G. Abraham and James R. Spletzer). American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 89(2), May 1999, pp. 34-39.
  • “Tracking the Returns to Education in the Nineties: Bridging the Gap Between the New and Old CPS Education Items”, (with Harley Frazis), Journal of Human Resources 34(3), Summer 1999, pp. 629-41.
  • “Adverse Selection and Pay Compression”, Southern Economic Journal 65(4), April 1999, pp.885-99.
  • “Divergent Trends in Alternative Wage Series”, (with Katharine G. Abraham and James R. Spletzer), in Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, John Haltiwanger, Marilyn Manser, and Robert Topel, eds., University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  • “Keying Errors Caused by Unusual Response Categories: Evidence from A Current Population Survey Test”, (with Harley Frazis), Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1998, pp. 131-34.
  • “Counting the Workers: Results of a First Survey”, (with Sharon R. Cohany, Steven F. Hipple, Thomas J. Nardone, and Anne E. Polivka) in Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition, Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen, eds., Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Earnings and Benefits of Contingent and Noncontingent Workers”, (with Steven Hipple), Monthly Labor Review 119(10), October 1996, pp.22-30.
  • Earnings and Benefits or Workers in Alternative Arrangements”, (with Steven Hipple) Monthly Labor Review 119(10), October 1996, pp. 46-54.
  • “A Comparison of the New and Old Education Items in the Current Population Survey”, (with Harley Frazis and Michelle Ports), Monthly Labor Review 118(9), September 1995, pp. 40-44.
  • “The Welfare Implications of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Competitive Insurance Markets”, Economic Inquiry 32(1), April 1994, pp. 193-208.
  • Working Papers by Jay Stewart

Sveikauskas, Leo

  • “Judging Factor Abundance”, (with Harry Bowen). Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 106 (May 1992), 599-620.
  • “Productivity Growth and the Depletion of Technological Opportunities”, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 1, June 1990, 301-308.
  • “Interindustry Regression Estimates of Factor Abundance”, (with Harry Bowen). in Claudon, Michael and Audretsch, David (Eds.), The Internationalization of United States Markets, New York University Press, New York City, New York, 1989.
  • “The Impact of Research and Development on Productivity Growth”, Bulletin 2331, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., September 1989.
  • “Urban Productivity: City Size or Industry Size?”, (with John Gowdy and Michael Funk). Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 28, May 1988, pp.185-202.
  • “Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory”, (with Harry Bowen and Edward Leamer), American Economic Review, Vol. 77, December 1987, pp.791-809.
  • “"The Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth”, Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 109, March 1986, pp.16-20.
  • “Intraregional Productivity Differences in New Manufacturing Plants in Sao Paulo State in Brazil”, (with Peter Townroe and Eric Hansen). Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Vol. 121, December 1985, pp.722-740.
  • “Science and Technology in Many Different Industries: Data for the Analysis of International Trade”, Review of Public Data Use, Vol. 12, June 1984, pp.133-156.
  • “Science and Technology in United States Foreign Trade”, Economic Journal, Vol. 93, September 1983, pp.542-555.
  • “Measures of Productivity Growth Implied by Tornqvist and Fixed-Weight Input Aggregation”, (with Kent Kunze), pp. 69-72 in U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trends in Multifactor Productivity, 1948-1981, Bulletin 2178, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1983.
  • “Industry Characteristics and Productivity Growth" (with Catherine D. Sveikauskas). Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 48, January 1982, pp.769-774.
  • “Technological Inputs and Multifactor Productivity Growth”, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, May 1981, pp.275-282.
  • “CES Efficiency Parameters”, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 62, February 1980, pp.135-139.
  • “Interurban Differences in the Innovative Nature of Production”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 6, April 1979, pp.216-227.
  • “The Productivity of Cities”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 89, August 1975, pp.393-413.
  • “Bias in Cross-Section Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution”, International Economic Review, Vol. 15, June 1974, pp.522-528.
  • Working Papers by Leo Sveikauskas

Zoghi, Cindy

  • “Occupations, Human Capital and Skill” (with Alec Levenson). Journal of Labor Research, Forthcoming 2011.
  • “Why are jobs designed the way they are?” (with Michael Gibbs and Alec Levenson). Research in Labor Economics 30, 2010, pp.107-154.
  • “The Decentralization of Decision Making and Employee Involvement within the Workplace: Evidence from Four Establishment Datasets” (with Robert D. Mohr). British Journal of Industrial Relations, Forthcoming.
  • “Workplace organization and innovation”. (with Robert D. Mohr and Peter B. Meyer). Canadian Journal of Economics 43:2 (May 2010), 622-639.
  • “High-Involvement Work Design and Job Satisfaction”, (with Robert D. Mohr). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, April 2008, pp.275-296.
  • “Which Workers Gain Upon Adopting a Computer?”, (with Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia). Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 2007, pp. 423-444.
  • “Who gains from computer use?”, (with Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia). Perspectives on labour and income, Vol.6, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 3-12.
  • “Returning to the Returns to Computer Use”, (with Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia). American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2005.
  • “Why Have Public Universities Done So Badly?”, Economics of Education Review Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2003, pp.45-57.
  • “ESOPs: For Whose Benefit?”, (with Laura Robinson). Jobs and Capital, Vol. 5, Winter 1996.
  • Working Papers by Cindy Zoghi

Other BLS/OPT Publications on Productivity

  • Eldridge, Lucy P., and Michael J. Harper. “Effects of imported intermediate inputs on productivity” Monthly Labor Review Vol. 133, No. 6, June 2010.
  • Zegeye, Akiliu. “Estimating Savings and Growth Functions in Developing Economies”, International Economic Journal, Vol. 8, 1994.
  • Zegeye, Akiliu. “Measuring Productivity in an Imperfect World”, Applied Economics, Vol. 32, 2000, pp.91-105.
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