35th Anniversary Retrospective

Outline

Since its inception RLE has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor economics topics. Authors have ranged from young scholars with much potential to mature leaders in the field, including Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark award winners.

Over the years RLE has continued to present important new research in labor economics. It covers themes such as labor supply, work effort, schooling, on-the-job training, earnings distribution, discrimination, migration, and the effects of government policies on worker well-being. It aims to apply economic theory and econometrics to analyze important policy-related questions, often with an international focus.

To commemorate RLE’s 35th anniversary, this retrospective edition contains 20 of the most influential RLE articles along with new introductory prefatory updates written by the original authors. These new prefaces emphasize recent developments that each article might have inspired and also discuss remaining unanswered questions.

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Chapters

• Kenneth Burdett, Dale T. Mortensen Labor Supply Under Uncertainty
• Robert A. Moffitt, Kenneth C. Kehrer The Effect of Tax and Transfer Programs on Labor Supply: The Evidence from the Income Maintenance Experiments
• David Card Earnings,Schooling, and Ability Revisited
• Joshua D. Angrist, William N. Evans Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reform
• Janet Currie, Duncan Thomas Early Test Scores, School Quality and Ses: Longrun Effects on Wage and Employment Outcomes
• David N. Figlio, Joe A. Stone Are Private Schools Really Better?
• Lee A. Lillard, Hong W. Tan Private Sector Training: Who Gets it and What are its Effects?
• Greg J. Duncan, Rachel Dunifon “Soft-Skills” and Long-Run Labor Market Success
• Solomon W. Polachek, Francis W. Horvath A Life Cycle Approach to Migration: Analysis of the Perspicacious Peregrinator
• Robert Topel Job Mobility, Search, and Earnings Growth: A Reinterpretation of Human Capital Earnings Functions
• George J. Borjas, Sherwin Rosen Income Prospects and Job Mobility of Younger Men
• Jacob Mincer Wage Changes in Job Changes
• Andrew Clark, Yannis Georgellis, Peter Sanfey Job Satisfaction, Wage Changes, and Quits: Evidence from Germany
• John H. Pencavel Work Effort, on-the-Job Screening, and Alternative Methods of Remuneration
• Edward P. Lazear Raids and Offer Matching
• W. Bentley MacLeod, Daniel Parent Job Characteristics and the Form of Compensation
• Gary S. Fields Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change: A New Method, with Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States
• Lawrence F. Katz, Alan B. Krueger Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors
• Joseph G. Altonji, Thomas A. Dunn Relationships among the Family Incomes and Labor Market Outcomes of Relatives
• Charles Brown “The Mouse that Roared?”Turns Thirty Introduction to “The Federal Attack on Labor Market Discrimination”
• Charles Brown The Federal Attack on Labor Market Discrimination: The Mouse that Roared

• Volume Details
• Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• Publication date 12 November 2012
• ISBN 978-1-78190-218-9
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec