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Solomon Polachek Solomon Polachek
University Distinguished Professor

PhD (1973), Columbia University

Labor economics, Human capital and income distribution, Econometrics.

Office: LT 1008
Phone:(607) 777-6866
Email:polachek@binghamton.edu
Homepage:http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~polachek/
Professional information:Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Major Publications:

  1. The Economics of Earnings, (with W. Stanley Siebert) Cambridge University Press, 1993, 367pp. Portions of Chapter 6 (“Gender in the Labour Market”) reprinted in:
    D Grusky (ed.) Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 2nd Edition. Boulder: Westview Press (2001)
  2. "Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women," (with Jacob Mincer) Journal of Political Economy (March/April 1974).
    Reprinted in:
    • Family Economics: Marriage. Human Capital, and Fertility, T.W. Schultz (ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research (1974)
    • The Economics of Women and Work, Alice Amsden, (ed.) New York: St. Martins Press (1980)
    • Studies in Human Capital Edward Elgar Press, (1993)
    • Gender and Economics, J. Humphries (ed.), Edward Elgar Press (1995)
    • The Economics of the Family, Nancy Folbre (ed.) Edward Elgar Press, forthcoming.
  3. "Employee Labor Market Information: Comparing Direct World of Work Measures of Workers' Knowledge to Stochastic Frontier Estimates," (with John Robst) Labour Economics 5, pp.231-242 (1998).
  4. "Panel Estimates of the Gender Earnings Gap: Individual Specific Intercept and Individual Specific Slope Models," (with M. Kim), Journal of Econometrics, 61 pp.23-42 (1994).
  5. "Differences in Expected Post-School Investment as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials," International Economic Review (June 1975).
    Reprinted in
    • Women, Minorities. and Discrimination in Employment, Phyllis Wallace (ed.), Massachusetts, Toronto, and London: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Co. (1977).


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