Volume 15, Number 4 (Fall) 1980
West, Richard W. 1980. "Effects on Wage Rates: An Interim Analysis." Journal of Human Resources 15(4):641-653.
Examined in this paper are the effects of the financial and manpower treatments of the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments on the wage rates of original heads of families (husbands, wives, and single female heads). The results indicate that there is little basis for concluding that either the financial or manpower treatments have had any effect on wage rates. In addition to using a simple dummy variable model, we have examined the effects on manpower program participants and have investigated the possibility of a shift to higher-paying occupations. In the estimates of these models, significant response coefficients appear only about as often as would occur by chance alone.
The author is an economist with SRI International. The research reported herein was performed pursuant to contracts with the States of Washington and Colorado, prime contractors for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under contract numbers HEW-100-78-0005 and HEW-100-78-0004, respectively. The opinions expressed in the paper are those of the author and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of the States of Washington or Colorado or any agency of the United States government. The assistance of Vicki Wooding and Kuankuan Chen is gratefully acknowledged.
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