Elder Jr., Glen, Aimée Dechter, and Hiromi Taniguchi Working paper no. 1999-20 Abstract The extraordinary manpower needs of World War II fueled a rapidly growing demand for both military and war industry personnel, though little is known about this war mobilization process in men’s lives, such as the relation between manpower policies (on age, occupation, …
Bagchi, Ann Working paper no. 1999-24
Voss, Paul, David D. Long, and Roger B. Hammer Working paper no. 1999-26 Abstract This paper introduces two new spatial interpolation techniques that utilize the network of road segments and the resulting nodes to allocate aggregated demographic characteristics from one type of geographic boundaries (i.e., the geographic hierarchy of the U.S. Census) to another (e.g. …
Dykema, Jennifer, and Nora Cate Schaeffer Working paper no. 1999-27 Abstract A substantial proportion of the research conducted by social scientists involves measuring, describing, and analyzing phenomena that can be broadly classified as events or behaviors. In order to measure experience systematically and in a manner that permits generalization across individuals and to larger groups, …
Grodsky, Eric, and Devah Pager Working paper no. 1999-28 Abstract In this paper we explore individual and occupational characteristics that explain earnings inequality between black and white men. Our research is motivated by the idea that the racial earnings gap is generated not only by individual differences but also by systematic variation in the occupational …
Wilson, Franklin Working paper no. 1999-29 Abstract This paper reports the findings of a study of labor market niching involving 102 ethnic groups living in 216 metropolitan areas in 1990. Approximately 12 percent of the labor force of the 216 metropolitan areas studied was employed in ethnic niches. The percentage in niches was substantially higher …
Flory, Thomas, and Nancy McDermott Working paper no. 1999-30 Abstract Decentralized computing units have proliferated at many universities where there is also a presence of a large centralized computing unit. These smaller local units emerge for many reasons not the least important of which is in response to a perception that local computing and user …
Logan, John Allen, Peter D. Hoff, and Michael A. Newton Working paper no. 1999-31 Abstract We consider a parametric version of the two-sided matching model of marriage described in Roth and Sotomayor (1990). There are two matching populations, men and women. Members of each population have utilities for pairing with members of the other population, …
Park, Hyunjoon Working paper no. 1999-32 Abstract This paper investigates intergenerational social mobility among men in Korea that has experienced tremendous social change related with a rapid and compressed process of industrialization. High structural mobility resulting from the massive outflow from agricultural to non-agricultural sectors reflects the drastic transformation in economic structure. Despite distinctive structural …
Sheridan, Jennifer Working paper no. 1999-33