Katharine G Abraham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 287862 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katharine G Abraham |
| PRENOMES | Katharine G |
| SOBRENOME | Abraham |
| ASSINATURA | ABRAHAM K G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1975-8714 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Health Insurance and Part-Time Employment
Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), part-time workers were much less likely than full-time workers to have health insurance. The ACA included multiple provisions intended to raise health insurance coverage rates, including a mandate that employers provide affordable coverage to full-time workers, a requirement that dependents be allowed to remain on their parents’ plan until age 26, extensions of Medicaid coverage, and the esta…
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
Measuring Human Capital
We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have proposed three approaches to constructing human capital measures-the indicator approach, the cost approach, and the income approach. Studies employing the indicator approach have used single measures such as average years of schooling or indexes of multiple measures. The cost approach values human capital investments based on spending. The inc…
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment
Good information on self-employment is needed to inform the ongoing discussion of the rise of the gig economy and its implications for workers. Tax data show significant growth in self-employment not captured in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS-ASEC). The growing gap reflects both self-employment in tax data missing from the CPS-ASEC and self-employment misreported as wage and salary work. We documen…
The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment
That the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than do the short-term unemployed is well-known, but why? One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that these bad outcomes are a consequence of their extended unemployment (state dependence). The authors use Current Population Survey data on unemployed individuals link…
Is Skill Mismatch Impeding U.S. Economic Recovery
As the labor market continues its slow return to health following the Great Recession, economic policymakers have been concerned that unemployed workers do not have the skills required for the jobs that employers would like to fill. In this article, the author reviews available evidence and finds little empirical basis for the view that skill mismatch has impeded U.S. economic recovery. She then considers why the widespread perception of serious …
Celebrating Relevant, Reliable, and Objective Labor Market Statistics
When the Department of Labor is mentioned, some people think about the assistance that the Employment and Training Administration and the Veterans Employment and Training Service provide to disadvantaged and dislocated individuals. Others think about the efforts of the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Ad-ministration, the Wage and Hour Division, the Employee Benefits Security
How Social Processes Distort Measurement
The authors argue that both the large variability in survey estimates of volunteering and the fact that survey estimates do not show the secular decline common to other social capital measures are caused by the greater propensity of those who do volunteer work to respond to surveys. Analyses of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)--the sample for which is drawn from the Current Population Survey (CPS)--together with the CPS volunteering supplement…
Health-Related Activities in the American Time Use Survey
OBJECTIVES: The Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey (ATUS), launched in 2003, offers the first comprehensive look at how individuals spend their time. Health services researchers can use it to study time spent on a variety of health-related activities. We explain the survey's structure and provide an overview of the health-related activities reported by 34,693 respondents in 2003-2004. METHODS: For the ATUS, computer-assisted pho…
Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey
Journal Article Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter? Get access Katharine G. Abraham, Katharine G. Abraham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Aaron Maitland, Aaron Maitland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne M. Bianchi Suzanne M. Bianchi katharine g. abraham is professor of survey methodology, aaron…
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government
The routine production of U.S. economic statistics dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. But in recent decades, as services output has continued to expand a system of economic statistics that had been designed during the manufacturing era began to seem increasingly outdated. Over the past decade, the statistical agencies have done yeoman work to expand the availability and quality of service sector statistics, but the task is far…
Toward a Cost-of-Living Index
The author considers the improvements the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made to the Consumer Price Index since the mid 1990s. These include changes designed to make the index more representative of current expenditure patterns; to account for consumer substitution in response to relative price change; and to account for changes in the quality of the goods and services that consumers purchase. Drawing on selected recommendations made by the Natio…
Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index
In this paper, we first comment on the recent (1996) report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, appointed by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the recommendations it contains. We then describe some of the initiatives currently underway at the Bureau of Labor Statistics—some of which were undertaken before the appearance of the Advisory Commission's report, others of which are part of a Consumer Price Index improveme…
Job Security in America
American employers rely heavily on layoffs to reduce the size of their work force during downturns. While layoffs are unavoidable in any competitive economy, they are far more common in the United States than in other industrialized countries. But can US workers be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them?. Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in …
New Developments in the Labor Market
The structure of employer/employee relationships is changing. These original contributions report on new developments taking place in today's labor market and on the role of public policy in shaping that process. They provide an illuminating description of the current state of internal labor market theory and practice, document the evolution of trends in the public and private sectors, and are joined in a concern for disadvantaged and unemployed …
Efficiency Wages
Returns to Seniority in Union and Nonunion Jobs
In cross-sectional data, the positive association between seniority and earnings is typically much stronger for nonunion workers than for union workers, a finding that seems inconsistent with the generalization that seniority is more important in the union sector than in the nonunion sector. The authors of this paper show that standard estimates of the return to seniority are likely to be biased upward due to unmeasured worker heterogeneity, job …
Cyclical Unemployment
Recent work by David Lilien has argued that the positive correlation between the dispersion of employment growth rates across sectors (a) and the unemployment rate implies that sectoral shifts in labor demand are responsible for a substantial fraction of cyclical variation in unemployment. This paper demonstrates that, under empirically satisfied conditions, traditional single-factor business-cycle models will produce a positive correlation betwe…
Length of Service and Promotions in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This study provides evidence on the relative importance of seniority and ability in the promotion process in union and nonunion settings. The analysis is based on survey data collected from managers in a random sample of about 400 firms, supplemented by an examination of personnel records concerning the pattern of promotions in two manufacturing firms. The results show that, as expected, the weight assigned seniority is significantly greater in u…
Length of Service and Layoffs in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This paper presents survey evidence from about 200 firms that protection against job loss grows with employees' length of service even after controlling for the perceived net value of employees to the firm. As would be expected, senior workers are better protected against permanent layoff in union than in nonunion firms, but even in the absence of unionism, longer service generally translates into extra protection. Among the private sector hourly…
Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey
Journal Article Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter? Get access Katharine G. Abraham, Katharine G. Abraham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Aaron Maitland, Aaron Maitland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne M. Bianchi Suzanne M. Bianchi katharine g. abraham is professor of survey methodology, aaron…
How Social Processes Distort Measurement
The authors argue that both the large variability in survey estimates of volunteering and the fact that survey estimates do not show the secular decline common to other social capital measures are caused by the greater propensity of those who do volunteer work to respond to surveys. Analyses of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)--the sample for which is drawn from the Current Population Survey (CPS)--together with the CPS volunteering supplement…
Cyclical Unemployment
Recent work by David Lilien has argued that the positive correlation between the dispersion of employment growth rates across sectors (a) and the unemployment rate implies that sectoral shifts in labor demand are responsible for a substantial fraction of cyclical variation in unemployment. This paper demonstrates that, under empirically satisfied conditions, traditional single-factor business-cycle models will produce a positive correlation betwe…
Length of Service and Promotions in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This study provides evidence on the relative importance of seniority and ability in the promotion process in union and nonunion settings. The analysis is based on survey data collected from managers in a random sample of about 400 firms, supplemented by an examination of personnel records concerning the pattern of promotions in two manufacturing firms. The results show that, as expected, the weight assigned seniority is significantly greater in u…
Length of Service and Layoffs in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This paper presents survey evidence from about 200 firms that protection against job loss grows with employees' length of service even after controlling for the perceived net value of employees to the firm. As would be expected, senior workers are better protected against permanent layoff in union than in nonunion firms, but even in the absence of unionism, longer service generally translates into extra protection. Among the private sector hourly…
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
Measuring Human Capital
We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have proposed three approaches to constructing human capital measures-the indicator approach, the cost approach, and the income approach. Studies employing the indicator approach have used single measures such as average years of schooling or indexes of multiple measures. The cost approach values human capital investments based on spending. The inc…
The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment
That the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than do the short-term unemployed is well-known, but why? One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that these bad outcomes are a consequence of their extended unemployment (state dependence). The authors use Current Population Survey data on unemployed individuals link…
Returns to Seniority in Union and Nonunion Jobs
In cross-sectional data, the positive association between seniority and earnings is typically much stronger for nonunion workers than for union workers, a finding that seems inconsistent with the generalization that seniority is more important in the union sector than in the nonunion sector. The authors of this paper show that standard estimates of the return to seniority are likely to be biased upward due to unmeasured worker heterogeneity, job …
Is Skill Mismatch Impeding U.S. Economic Recovery
As the labor market continues its slow return to health following the Great Recession, economic policymakers have been concerned that unemployed workers do not have the skills required for the jobs that employers would like to fill. In this article, the author reviews available evidence and finds little empirical basis for the view that skill mismatch has impeded U.S. economic recovery. She then considers why the widespread perception of serious …
Length of Service and Layoffs in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This paper presents survey evidence from about 200 firms that protection against job loss grows with employees' length of service even after controlling for the perceived net value of employees to the firm. As would be expected, senior workers are better protected against permanent layoff in union than in nonunion firms, but even in the absence of unionism, longer service generally translates into extra protection. Among the private sector hourly…
Length of Service and Promotions in Union and Nonunion Work Groups
This study provides evidence on the relative importance of seniority and ability in the promotion process in union and nonunion settings. The analysis is based on survey data collected from managers in a random sample of about 400 firms, supplemented by an examination of personnel records concerning the pattern of promotions in two manufacturing firms. The results show that, as expected, the weight assigned seniority is significantly greater in u…
Cyclical Unemployment
Recent work by David Lilien has argued that the positive correlation between the dispersion of employment growth rates across sectors (a) and the unemployment rate implies that sectoral shifts in labor demand are responsible for a substantial fraction of cyclical variation in unemployment. This paper demonstrates that, under empirically satisfied conditions, traditional single-factor business-cycle models will produce a positive correlation betwe…
Returns to Seniority in Union and Nonunion Jobs
In cross-sectional data, the positive association between seniority and earnings is typically much stronger for nonunion workers than for union workers, a finding that seems inconsistent with the generalization that seniority is more important in the union sector than in the nonunion sector. The authors of this paper show that standard estimates of the return to seniority are likely to be biased upward due to unmeasured worker heterogeneity, job …
New Developments in the Labor Market
The structure of employer/employee relationships is changing. These original contributions report on new developments taking place in today's labor market and on the role of public policy in shaping that process. They provide an illuminating description of the current state of internal labor market theory and practice, document the evolution of trends in the public and private sectors, and are joined in a concern for disadvantaged and unemployed …
Efficiency Wages
Job Security in America
American employers rely heavily on layoffs to reduce the size of their work force during downturns. While layoffs are unavoidable in any competitive economy, they are far more common in the United States than in other industrialized countries. But can US workers be offered more secure employment without burdening the companies that employ them?. Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman address this question by comparing labor adjustment practices in …
Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index
In this paper, we first comment on the recent (1996) report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, appointed by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the recommendations it contains. We then describe some of the initiatives currently underway at the Bureau of Labor Statistics—some of which were undertaken before the appearance of the Advisory Commission's report, others of which are part of a Consumer Price Index improveme…
Toward a Cost-of-Living Index
The author considers the improvements the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made to the Consumer Price Index since the mid 1990s. These include changes designed to make the index more representative of current expenditure patterns; to account for consumer substitution in response to relative price change; and to account for changes in the quality of the goods and services that consumers purchase. Drawing on selected recommendations made by the Natio…
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government
The routine production of U.S. economic statistics dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. But in recent decades, as services output has continued to expand a system of economic statistics that had been designed during the manufacturing era began to seem increasingly outdated. Over the past decade, the statistical agencies have done yeoman work to expand the availability and quality of service sector statistics, but the task is far…
Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey
Journal Article Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter? Get access Katharine G. Abraham, Katharine G. Abraham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Aaron Maitland, Aaron Maitland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Suzanne M. Bianchi Suzanne M. Bianchi katharine g. abraham is professor of survey methodology, aaron…
Health-Related Activities in the American Time Use Survey
OBJECTIVES: The Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey (ATUS), launched in 2003, offers the first comprehensive look at how individuals spend their time. Health services researchers can use it to study time spent on a variety of health-related activities. We explain the survey's structure and provide an overview of the health-related activities reported by 34,693 respondents in 2003-2004. METHODS: For the ATUS, computer-assisted pho…
How Social Processes Distort Measurement
The authors argue that both the large variability in survey estimates of volunteering and the fact that survey estimates do not show the secular decline common to other social capital measures are caused by the greater propensity of those who do volunteer work to respond to surveys. Analyses of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS)--the sample for which is drawn from the Current Population Survey (CPS)--together with the CPS volunteering supplement…
Celebrating Relevant, Reliable, and Objective Labor Market Statistics
When the Department of Labor is mentioned, some people think about the assistance that the Employment and Training Administration and the Veterans Employment and Training Service provide to disadvantaged and dislocated individuals. Others think about the efforts of the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Ad-ministration, the Wage and Hour Division, the Employee Benefits Security
Is Skill Mismatch Impeding U.S. Economic Recovery
As the labor market continues its slow return to health following the Great Recession, economic policymakers have been concerned that unemployed workers do not have the skills required for the jobs that employers would like to fill. In this article, the author reviews available evidence and finds little empirical basis for the view that skill mismatch has impeded U.S. economic recovery. She then considers why the widespread perception of serious …
The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment
That the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than do the short-term unemployed is well-known, but why? One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that these bad outcomes are a consequence of their extended unemployment (state dependence). The authors use Current Population Survey data on unemployed individuals link…
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment
Good information on self-employment is needed to inform the ongoing discussion of the rise of the gig economy and its implications for workers. Tax data show significant growth in self-employment not captured in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS-ASEC). The growing gap reflects both self-employment in tax data missing from the CPS-ASEC and self-employment misreported as wage and salary work. We documen…
Measuring Human Capital
We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have proposed three approaches to constructing human capital measures-the indicator approach, the cost approach, and the income approach. Studies employing the indicator approach have used single measures such as average years of schooling or indexes of multiple measures. The cost approach values human capital investments based on spending. The inc…
Health Insurance and Part-Time Employment
Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), part-time workers were much less likely than full-time workers to have health insurance. The ACA included multiple provisions intended to raise health insurance coverage rates, including a mandate that employers provide affordable coverage to full-time workers, a requirement that dependents be allowed to remain on their parents’ plan until age 26, extensions of Medicaid coverage, and the esta…
The Independent Contractor Workforce
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus w…
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