Contemporary Economic Policy back issues from July 1998:
Obituary: Dean Amory Worchester, Jr. 1918-1998
Jul 01, 1998; ... Dean A. Worcester, Jr., 1967-1968 Western Economic Association President, died January 16, 1998 at his Crystal Lake home, Woodinville, Wash. Over the years, Dean continued as a WEA International member, and he regularly participated in its conferences. At the Annual Conference in Seattle, July ...
Special government assistance to defense-dependent industry workers: The case of the aerospace industry
Jul 01, 1998; ... ROBERT F. SCHOENI and MICHAEL DARDIA* The end of the Cold War brought profound changes to defense-dependent sectors of the civilian economy. The aerospace industry has been at the vortex of these contractions. Based on the assumption that aerospace workers suffered unique hardships, the ...
Immigration, population heterogeneity, and earnings inequality in Hong Kong
Jul 01, 1998; ... KIT-CHUN LAM and PAK-WAI LIU* This paper analyzes the heterogeneity effect of immigration on earnings inequality by decomposing the aggregate measure of total inequality. The analysis shows that a substantial portion of an increase in measured inequality could be due to shifts in shares ...
State patterns in family income inequality
Jul 01, 1998; ... JAMIE S. PARTRIDGE, MARK D. PARTRIDGE, and DAN S. RICKMAN* It is well known that U.S. income inequality began to increase in the 1970s and increased sharply in the 1980s. Yet, what is less well known is that this upward trend was not uniform across states. Some states experienced almost ...
Economic resources of the homeless: Evidence from Los Angeles
Jul 01, 1998; ... ROBERT F. SCHOENI and PAUL KOEGEL* This paper examines the economic resources of homeless adults using a unique data set from Los Angeles. The homeless rely on a variety of sources for income; the two most common sources are the government and the family. Over 58% received government ...
Alcohol regulation and domestic violence towards children
Jul 01, 1998; ... In recent years, economists have paid much attention to the demand for alcohol and the negative externalities associated with excessive drinking. Largely ignored in the literature is the link between alcohol use and domestic violence. Given the established positive relationship between alcohol ...
Criminal perceptions and violent criminal victimization
Jul 01, 1998; ... SAMUEL L. MYERS, JR., and CHANJIN CHUNG* This paper explores the relationship between various measures of prior victimization and indicators of both the perceived victimization risk and fear of crime. Equations are specified and estimated both for the fear of crime/perception of risk ...
Illicit drug use, absenteeism, and earnings at six U.S. worksites
Jul 01, 1998; ... MICHAEL T. FRENCH, GARY A. ZARKIN, and LAURA J. DUNLAP* Considerable national attention has focused recently on the adverse consequences of illicit drug use. While several studies estimate the relationship between illicit drug use and wages, the findings are inconsistent. Surprisingly, ...
Does Indian casino gambling reduce state revenues? Evidence from Arizonia
Jul 01, 1998; ... GARY C. ANDERS, DONALD SIEGEL, and MUNTHER YACOUB* Critics of Indian gaming contend that reservation casinos have a negative impact on state economies. This paper tests the hypothesis that the introduction of Indian casinos caused a structural change in the formation of Arizona state ...
How well do we measure employer-provided health insurance coverage
Jul 01, 1998; ... MARK C. BERGER, DAN A. BLACK, and FRANK A. SCOTT* Using data from the Current Population Survey and a new matched survey of employers and employees, this paper investigates error in the measurement of employer-provided health insurance. The often-used March CPS gives lower coverage ...
Price discrimination at the links
Jul 01, 1998; ... STEPHEN SHMANSKE* This paper reports on an econometric analysis of the pricing structures at 46 public access golf courses in the San Francisco area. Comparisons among several attempts to get a generic measure of price discrimination suggest that the standard deviation of the prices ...