Allan G King

Biographic Data

ID760097
NAMEAllan G King
GIVEN NAMESAllan G
FAMILY NAMEKing
SIGNATUREKING A G
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS29
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
H-INDEX3

  • A brief for a tax-based U.S. immigration policy

    Open AccessAllan G KingARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…1983References: 4

  • The number of illegal migrants of Mexican origin in the United States

    Open AccessFrank D Bean, Allan G King et al.ARTICLEDemography1983Cited by: 19References: 8

    This article reports the results of applying a sex ratio-based method to estimate the number of undocumented Mexicans residing in the United States in 1980. The approach centers on a comparison between the hypothetical sex ratio one would expect to find in Mexico in the absence of emigration to the United States and the sex ratio that is in fact reported in preliminary results from the 1980 Mexican Census. The procedure involves, inter alia, assu…

  • El efecto de los inmigrantes ilegales sobre el desempleo en Estados Unidos

    Open AccessAllan G King, Sylvia MoguelARTICLERevista Mexicana de Sociología1979Cited by: 1

  • Industrial Structure, the Flexibility of Working Hours, and Women's Labor Force Participation

    Allan G KingARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1978

    THIS paper emphasizes the role of the industrial structure of labor demand, as it influences the array of hours of work from which women can choose, as a factor affecting labor force participation rates of women. While the rapid increase in women's labor force participation' has received a great deal of attention from economists (Long, 1958; Mincer, 1962), and the cross-sectional variation also has been studied intensively (Cain, 1966; Bowen and …

  • Labor Market Racial Discrimination against Black Women

    Open AccessAllan G KingARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…1978Cited by: 3References: 2

    The data we have reviewed describe black women as having achieved parity with white women and indicate that this conclusion is not seriously affected after controlling for the direct and indirect effects of differences in time worked. However, the economic position of black women is not uniform throughout the economy. Black women have advanced primarily in public sector jobs and these advances have been made primarily by the youngest cohorts. Pro…

  • Race and the Determinants of Lifetime Earnings

    Open AccessAllan G King, Charles B KnappARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1978

    Investigates the determinants of lifetime earnings within and between black and white racial groups. Importance of education and post-school investment in determining variation in lifetime earnings; Factors that influence the lifetime earnings differential between the two races; Details of the education and post-school investment equations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

  • Occupational Choice, Risk Aversion, and Wealth

    Allan G KingARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1974Cited by: 6

    Evaluation of a model of occupational choice in which earnings are regarded as random variables and contain an element of risk. Correlation between occupational risk and expected income; Influence of risk on occupational choice; Hypothesis concerning occupational choices. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

  • Stochastic Dominance and 'The Economic Rationale of Occupational Choice

    Open AccessAllan G KingARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1973

    Comments on an article written by Arthur Carol and Samuel Parry in the January 1968 issue of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, on a rank ordering of occupations according to an expected present value criterion. Ordering implied by stochastic dominance; Assumptions on the nature of individual occupational preferences; Analysis of the ordering. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)