Working Papers

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Anthony J. Barkume

• "Some New Evidence on Overtime Use, Total Job Compensation, and Wage Rates," BLS Working Paper No. 402, January 2007.
• "Does Average Hourly Earnings Indicate the Hour Price of Labor? Some Cross Section Evidence for US Private Industry Jobs," presented January 2006 at the Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings.
• "Development of an ECI Excluding Workers Earning Incentive Pay" (with Thomas Moehrle), presented at the 2004 Meetings of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C., December 2004; access paper at http://www.bls.gov/bls/fesacp4061104.pdf
• "Microdata Access at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics" (with James R. Spletzer), presented at the Statistics Sweden Workshop on Microdata, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003; access paper at http://www.micro2122.scb.se/papers.asp )
• "Compensation Supplements and Use of Incentive Pay in US Job Markets," BLS Working Paper #352, February 2002.
• Journal Publications and BLS Publications by Anthony J. Barkume

Keenan M. Dworak-Fisher

• “Encouraging Participation in 401(k) Plans:  Reconsidering the Employer Match,” BLS Working Paper No. 420, November 2008.

• "Details of Plan Generosity Among 401(k) Plans Having Employer Matches, 2002-2003," March 2007
• "Local Labor Market Effects of Industrial Demand Shocks - Aircraft Manufacturing in the 1990s" (with John Bound) - presented at the 2006 Western Regional Science Association Annual Meetings.
• "New Evidence on the Determinants of 401(k) Participation" - presented at the 2005 American Economics Association Annual Meetings.
• Journal Publications by Keenan M. Dworak-Fisher

Michael K. Lettau

• "Match Bias in the National Compensation Survey," presented at 2005 Southern Economic Association Meetings.
• "Cyclical Aggregation Bias," BLS Working Paper No. 310, April 1998.
• "Compensation in Part-time Jobs versus Full-time Jobs: What if the Job is the Same?" Economics Letters, vol. 56, 1997: 101-106.
• "Estimating the Wage-Health Insurance Tradeoff: More Data Problems?" with Thomas C. Buchmueller, presented at Winter 1997 Econometric Society Meetings.
• Journal Publications and BLS Publications by Michael K. Lettau

Thomas G. Moehrle

• "Nondurables and services responsiveness in a nonlinear model: more evidence of binding borrowing constraints," BLS Working Paper, 1996.
• "Age effects in a life cycle model: debt constraints and discount rates," manuscript, February 1995
• Journal Publications and BLS Publications by Thomas G. Moehrle

Nicole Nestoriak

• "Measuring the Real Output of Medical Care Services" (with Ana Aizcorbe), presented at NBER/CRIW Summer 2006
• "Endogenous Technology and Local Labor Market Skill," April 2006
• "Firm Performance, Workforce Quality and Workforce Churning," (with B. Campbell, H. Chiang, J. Haltiwanger, L. Hunter, R. Jarmin, T. Park, and K. Sandusky), mimeo, 2004, presented at the NBER/CRIW, July 2004; and ASSA Annual Meeting, January 2004.
• "Internal Labor Markets and Diversification Strategies in Financial Services," (with H. Chiang, C. Grim, J. Haltiwanger, L. Hunter, R. Jarmin, K. Sandusky, and J. Seo), mimeo, 2004, presented at the NBER/CRIW, July 2004.
• Journal Publications and BLS Publications by Nicole Nestoriak

Last Modified Date: August 7, 2009