>I could be wrong about this, and I do not havbe the Oswald and
>Blanchflower book in front of me (I reviewd this book, Card's and
>Krueger's book on the minimum wage, and Botwinnick's "Persistent
>Inequality" in a Monthly Review article last year). But the O and B book
>is based on a multi-million sample from the entire world and not just for
>the U.S. whereas Boushey's paper is for the U.S. alone.
Heather's work is also based on a study of large metropolitan areas for one year. She'd like to have done more, but the New School doesn't have the computing facilities to handle it. She did her regressions on her own aging PC. I told her about EPI's roomful of Suns and she was very jealous.
Doug