Walter Y Oi

Biographic Data

ID1001113
NAMEWalter Y Oi
GIVEN NAMESWalter Y
FAMILY NAMEOi
SIGNATUREOI W Y
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS127
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
H-INDEX3

  • Work for Americans with Disabilities

    Open AccessWalter Y OiARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1992Cited by: 3References: 8

    The available data indicate that less than a third of disabled working-age adults are employed, and, when they are, they are paid lower wages. Their incomes are low even after including transfer payments. The problem of identifying a disabled person and the nature of the labor market are reviewed in this article. It is argued that in addition to imposing functional limitations, disability steals time and shortens life expectancy. The Americans wi…

  • Labour Market Adjustment

    Walter Y Oi, Christopher A PissaridesARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1979

    The main purpose of this book is to develop a general theoretical framework within which it is possible to analyse the interaction of markets in disequilibrium. It considers optimal firm and household behaviour in a dynamic sequence of the labour and commodity markets when there is imperfect information about wage offers and the supply price of labour. The study is mainly theoretical but several empirical phenomena are shown to have an important …

  • Residential Location and Labor Supply

    Walter Y Oi, Walter OiARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1976Cited by: 8

  • A Bracketing Rule for the Estimation of Simple Distributed Lag Models

    Walter Y OiARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1969

    T HE geometric distributed lag model developed by Koyck [8] and Nerlove [11] has been widely used in many empirical studies. The appropriate estimation method for parameters of these models is determined by the true probability distribution of random errors. If the random errors follow a first-order Markov process, Klein [7] has shown that the method of weighted regressions yields maximum likelihood estimators.' However, Klein's method requires p…

  • Can we Afford the Draft

    Walter Y OiARTICLECurrent History1968

    Essay| July 01 1968 Can we Afford the Draft? Walter Y. Oi Walter Y. Oi Professor of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Rochester Walter Y. Oi is a member of the Center for Research in Government Policy and Business in the College of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. He has served as a consultant to the Department of Defense and the Institute for Defense Analyses, and has done research and published …

  • The Neoclassical Foundations of Progress Functions

    Walter Y OiARTICLEThe Economic Journal1967Cited by: 8

    Journal Article The Neoclassical Foundations of Progress Functions Get access Walter Y. Oi Walter Y. Oi University of Washington, Seattle. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issue 307, 1 September 1967, Pages 579–594, https://doi.org/10.2307/2228992 Published: 01 September 1967

  • The Economic Value of the United States Merchant Marine

    G A Fuller, Allen R Ferguson et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1962

  • Labor as a Quasi-Fixed Factor

    Walter Y OiARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1962Cited by: 108