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1.	Krishnan, Jayanthi
1.	Labor Quality Upgrading and Restrictive Hiring Practices in Union Workplaces Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1990 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Control; Firms; Job Turnover; Labor Supply; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Unions This dissertation is concerned with the issue of rationing of scarce union jobs. A number of alternative rationing devices are possible: a simple lottery, job queues and positive selection. The conjecture that unionized employers upgrade the quality of labor they hire (positive selection) appears frequently in the literature. This dissertation addresses two questions: (1) What is the impact of the locus of hiring control (employer or union) on quality upgrading in unionized jobs. (2) What determines the locus of union control. A model of hiring by unions is used to show that incumbent workers in a unionized firm would upgrade quality of new hires as long as they attach more value to their own rents than to the rents of newcomers. The hypothesis suggested by this analysis, that upgrading in union-controlled-hiring situations if less than or equal to that in employer-controlled-hiring situations, is tested using data from the NLSY. The results indicate that upgrading of labor quality does not differ across union-controlled and employer-controlled sectors. The effect of union power is ambiguous. These hypotheses are tested with interindustry data on the prevalence of the closed shop in 1946, the year before it was made illegal (Taft-Hartley Act) in 1979. The results strongly support the hypothesis that unions tend to control hiring in situations of high job turnover.
	Bibliography Citation Krishnan, Jayanthi. Labor Quality Upgrading and Restrictive Hiring Practices in Union Workplaces. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1990.

2.	Steckel, Richard Hall Krishnan, Jayanthi
2.	The Wealth Mobility of Men and Women During the 1960s and 1970s Review of Income and Wealth 52,2 (June 2006): 189-212. Also: http://www.nlsinfo.org/usersvc/NLS_Women/Steckel-Krishnan-Wealth%20Mobility-May-2006.pdf Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men Publisher: International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (I.A.R.I.W.) Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Household Income; Marital Status; Mobility; Poverty; Racial Differences; Wealth Research on poverty and inequality is dominated by cross-section studies that are useful but disguise change over time. Investigation of change requires longitudinal data, which are relatively rare and expensive. This paper researches wealth mobility in a national sample of 4,255 households monitored in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Older Men and of Mature Women from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Our measure of wealth is net family assets, excluding automobiles. We present descriptive measures and estimate econometric models of mobility, including persistence in the lower and the upper end of the wealth distribution, and movement into the upper and the lower end of the wealth distribution. The results place inequality measures in perspective and shed light on mechanisms that influence household wealth mobility. The gainers were farmers and those with skilled jobs or high levels of education, while groups that fell behind included single people, blacks, and families disrupted by divorce or death of a spouse.
	Bibliography Citation Steckel, Richard Hall and Jayanthi Krishnan. "The Wealth Mobility of Men and Women During the 1960s and 1970s." Review of Income and Wealth 52,2 (June 2006): 189-212.

3.	Steckel, Richard Hall Krishnan, Jayanthi
3.	Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey Presented: Blithewood Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY, Levy Economics Institute Conference, "Economic Mobility in America and Other Advanced Countries", October 19, 2002. Also: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpt9_02.pdf Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men Publisher: Levy Economics Institute Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Household Income; Marital Status; Mobility; Poverty; Racial Differences; Wealth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.
	Bibliography Citation Steckel, Richard Hall and Jayanthi Krishnan. "Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey." Presented: Blithewood Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY, Levy Economics Institute Conference, "Economic Mobility in America and Other Advanced Countries", October 19, 2002.

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