[PEN-L:11743] Re: Black Male Employment

might mean that if the incarceration rate DROPPED between 1995 and 1996, this might have reduced the employment rate as more black men were on the streets rather than in prisons. This would show up as an unusually large increase in the noninstitutionalized population. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:11731] Black Male Employment

in black employment ratios during a boom year like 1996? Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:11673] Re: Barabara Ehrenreich

ity of women to find many more alternatives than forty years ago. Robert Cherry Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:11643] Re: Barbara Ehrenreich

noticeable. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:11531] Re: Child tax credit

does have the substantial negative impact on the market supply decision of mothers with working husbands. I am simply arguing that we should be able to defend this aspect of the eitc. Robert Cherry/Brooklyn College -- PA

[PEN-L:11518] Re: Child tax credit

able to obtain low-wage employment with choosing to spend less time in the labor market so that they can spend more time with their children? Robert Cherry/Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:11464] Re: Child tax credit

in the $16,000 to $19,000 range know they would receive an additional $1000 for the two children they have if they could raise their adjusted gross income above $19,000 that they would seek more paid employment. (Isn't neoclassical analysis wonderful!) Robert Cherry/Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:11417] Male Chauvanist Math

we look closely at the employment effects (which in the aggregate may net out to zero). Again, do we focus on the central tendency (male professionals??) or on the adverse consequences to particular subgroups (female blue collar??). Robert Cherry/Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:11215] Re: Econ Rent/tenure

, particularly that of full professors when there is no merit raises. This is the situation in the CUNY system. Would it be correct to argue that given lack of accountability, tenured full professors are earning economic rents? Robert Cherry Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:10888] Re: religion

tilitarian, focus on the afterlife, and on the man-to-God relationships, and ignore class conflict between the powerful and the powerless. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:9695] Re: Info on natural rate data

the estimates of the NAIRU/natural rate by states? Robert Cherry Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:8878] RE: Nairu

published in the same issue of the JEP) Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8563] Berkley Rosser, Jerry Levy

Just made my reservations. Will be arriving in Columbia at 7PM on Wed and leaving on a 3PM flight that Sunday. The reservations became a bit more complicated since the week's delay changed availability somewhat and the also the price became about $35 higher. Robert

[PEN-L:8392] Re: BalBudget Ad

not "blood-curdling" they do give reasons that make the issue much more than simply lowering the unemployment rate a notch. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8387] Re: BalBudget Ad

Employment? Is it foolish to think that having a real Labor Day next September when in every city the unions have a mobilization with other groups around real full employment is impossible? Isn't it possible for EPI to be a catalyst for some of this? Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8379] BalBudget Ad

rates. Maybe the EPI can have Eisner and others generate an ad that would have this focus -- even a few hundred signatures on this kind of an ad is worth more than the thousands you are getting on the bbamendment ad. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8275] Re: Minority Business Survey

, made a conscious decision not to have a strong defender who is unwilling to be completely colleagial on the panel. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8275] Re: Minority Business Survey

, made a conscious decision not to have a strong defender who is unwilling to be completely colleagial on the panel. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8259] FBI Racism

I am writing an article in which I could use some reference material concerning the racist employment practices of the FBI during the 1980s. Any help would be appreciated. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8259] FBI Racism

I am writing an article in which I could use some reference material concerning the racist employment practices of the FBI during the 1980s. Any help would be appreciated. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8115] Industrial Organization

I am working on a simple Price Leadership (Dominant Firm) model: One dominant firm with many small firms. Has anybody seen a reference in an industrial organization text or elsewhere to this model in which there is freedom of entry for the small firms? Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8053] CORE inflation

the expansion since their rising incomes more than offset the modest rise in inflation rates which might occur. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:8061] Re: CORE inflation

In response to my latest posting concerning CORE inflation. Doug Henwood posted monthly rates from 1986 thru 1991. Accepting his numbers, my claim that inflation remained in a narrow band of "4.1 to 4.7 percent during the relevant period holds from April 1987 thru at least February 1990.

[PEN-L:7992] Re: cost of job loss

-90. For this reason, I stand by my previous conclusion: Thus, the FED responded in 1989 and 1990 to financial interests which are tied to the CPI and not to any clear underlying evidence that there was an accelerating inflation rate. Happy New Year, Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:7976] Re: cost of job loss

which are tied to the CPI and not to any clear underlying evidence that there was an accelerating inflation rate. Robert Cherry Brooklyn College

[PEN-L:7887] Re: Che Guevara: The Movie

was essentially an anti-leninist leninist. Robert Cherry

[PEN-L:7796] Larry Summers

. Robert Cherry Brooklyn College EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:7358] Federal Requirements

With all the discourse concerning the end of Affirmative Action (AA) in California -- I tend to be sympathetic to the traditional Marxist notion popularized by Michael Reich that its political initiative is a class attack rather than a racist attack -- it is unclear how Federal AA

[PEN-L:6957] A New Macro Text

will improve it) please contact me. Robert Cherry EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:6850] What is Stalinism?

Whatever the outcome of the Swangi Tell saga, I am struck by the looseness of the use of the term "Stalinism." It upsets me just as much as when the left used the term "Reaganism." Using Reaganism was a way of avoiding being explicitly anti-capitalist while using Stalinism is often a way

[PEN-L:6643] Re: Marginal Tax Rates

Nathan Newman is correct that the working poor have a very high marginal tax rate as a result of MEANS-TESTED PROGRAMS. This includes not only the EIC but also foodstamps which have a 24 percent phase-out rate. It was one of the reasons why having a phased-out health credit (the

[PEN-L:6534] Re: Why raise the minimum wage

Everyone seems to be avoiding the possibility that the rise in the minimum wage might be somewhat inflationary. As a rough measure suppose that the minimum wage would rise by 25 percent. Since low wage workers represent probably 10 percent of the cost of production, this would represent a

[PEN-L:6547] Re: why raise the minimum wage

Jim Devine writes: As Tavis notes, labor productivity isn't constant, so this inflationary scenario doesn't wash. In fact, as others have noted, higher wages may stimulate technological change and more capital-intensive production, so that labor productivity growth would accelerate.