Working Papers

Giandrea, Michael D.

• “Self Employment Among Older American Workers”, (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). BLS Working Paper No. 418, 2008.
• “An Update on Bridge Jobs: The HRS War Babies”, (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). BLS Working Paper No. 407, 2008.
• “A Micro-level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation among Older Workers”, (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). BLS Working Paper No. 400, 2006.
• “Industry Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth”, BLS Working Paper No. 399, 2006.
• “Are Traditional Retirements a Thing of the Past? New Evidence on Retirement Patterns and Bridge Jobs”, (with Kevin E. Cahill and Joseph F. Quinn). BLS Working Paper No. 384, 2005.
• Publications by Michael Giandrea

Meyer, Peter Benjamin

• “Network of Tinkerers: A Model of Open-Source Technology Innovation”, BLS Working Paper No. 413, November 2007.
• “Workplace Organization and Innovation”, (with Cindy Zoghi and Robert Mohr) BLS Working Paper No. 405, May 2007.
• “Proposed Category System for 1960-2000 Census Occupations”, (with Anastasiya Osborne) BLS Working Paper No. 383, September 2005.
• “Turbulence, Inequality, and Cheap Steel”, BLS Working Paper No. 375, February 2005.
• “Episodes of Collective Invention”, BLS Working Paper No. 368, August 2003.
• Publications by Peter Benjamin Meyer

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff

• “Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures”, (with Lucy Eldridge). BLS Working Paper No. 406, May 2007.
• “Single Mother’s Time Preference and Enriching Childcare: Evidence from Time Diaries”, (with Younghwan Song) Presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings. 2008.
• “Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Housework, Screen Time, and Sleep”, (with Charlene Kalenkoski). Presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings. 2008.
• “The Effect of Child Gender on Parents’ Labor Supply: Responses among Natives, Immigrants, and Racial and Ethnic Subgroups”, (with Jennifer Ward-Batts). Presented at the Society of Labor Economists 2008.
• “Time Allocation of Parents and Investments in Sons and Daughters”, (with Shelly Lundberg and Jennifer Ward-Batts). Presented at the Workshop on Gender and the Labor Market at ZEW, March 2008.
• “Working at Home: An Analysis of Telecommuting in Canada”, Presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings 2005.
• “Investigation of the Volatility of Quarterly Nonfarm Unincorporated Self-Employed Hours in the CPS”, (with Shawn Sprague) Unpublished manuscript. 2004.
• “Youth Earnings and Parental Allowances”, Presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings 2002.
• “The Effects of Federal and State Minimum Wage Laws Upon Youth Employment.”, Presented at the Society of Labor Economist Meetings, May 2002.
• Publications by Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

Powers, Susan

• “Reconciling Differences Between BEA and BLS Industry Output Measures.”, Unpublished working paper. April 2008.
• Publications by Susan Powers

Sveikauskas, Leo

• “R&D and Productivity Growth: A Review of the Literature”, BLS Working Paper No. 408, September 2007.
• “CES Efficiency Parameters”, BLS Working Paper No. 81, 1980.
• Publications by Leo Sveikauskas

Zegeye, Aklilu

• “U.S. Public Infrastructure and Its Contribution to Private Sector Productivity”, BLS Working paper No. 329, June 2000.
• “The Empirical Importance of Market Power and Scale Economies for Productivity Measurement”, Unpublished manuscript.
• Publications by Aklilu Zegeye

Zoghi, Cindy

• “Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?”, (with Mike Gibbs and Alec Levenson). BLS Working Paper No. 382, June 2005.
• “The Distribution of Decision Rights in the Workplace: Evidence from Canadian, Australian and UK Data”, BLS Working Paper No. 363, December 2002. (renamed “The Decentralization of Decision-Making and Employee Involvement within the Workplace: Evidence from British, Australian and Canadian Establishments”,)
• “Workplace Organization and Innovation”, (with Peter Meyer and Robert Mohr) BLS Working paper No. 405., May 2007.
• “Measuring Labor Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies”, Unpublished manuscript, June 2007.
• “Changes to the BLS Labor Composition Index”, Unpublished manuscript, June 2006.
• “Sectoral Wage Differentials and Job Requirements”, (with Alec Levenson). Unpublished manuscript, April 2007.
• “The Strength of Occupation Indicators as a Proxy for Skill”, (with Alec Levenson). BLS Working Paper No. 404, December 2006.
• “Job Characteristics and Labor Market Discrimination in Promotions: New Theory and Empirical Evidence”, (with Jed DeVaro and Suman Ghosh). Cornell University ILR Working Paper, August 2007.
• Publications by Cindy Zoghi