Selected Publications

  • "Unemployment, Nonemployment, and Wages: Why Has the Natural Rate Increased Through Time?" (with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1991).

  • "The Decline in Male Labor Market Participation: The Role of Declining Market Opportunities," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107 (February, 1992).

  • "Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill," (with Kevin M. Murphy and Brooks Pierce), Journal of Political Economy, 101 (June, 1993).

  • "Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply," (with Kevin M. Murphy), Journal of Labor Economics, 15 (January 1997).

  • "The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages," (with Dae Il Kim), Journal of Labor Economics, 17 (January 1999).

  • "Current Unemployment, Historically Contemplated," (with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (2002).

  • "Labor Market Dropouts and Trends in the Wages of Black and White Men," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 56 m(July 2003).

  • "Technical Change and the Demand for Skills during the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1891-1912," (with Aimee Chin and Peter Thompson), Review of Economics and Statistics, 88 (August 2006).