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Kenneth Couch

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University of Connecticut Department of Economics 341 Mansfield Rd. Storrs, CT 06269
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Department of Economics
University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Couch, Kenneth A. & Fairlie, Robert W. & Xu, Huanan, 2021. "The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty," IZA Discussion Papers 14811, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  2. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert W. Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2020. "The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata," CESifo Working Paper Series 8327, CESifo.
  3. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert W. Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2016. "Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession," CESifo Working Paper Series 5772, CESifo.
  4. Richard Hauser & Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk, 2016. "Wife or Frau, Women Still Do Worse: A Comparison of Men and Women in the United States and Germany after Union Dissolutions in the 1990s and 2000s," Working papers 2016-39, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  5. Gulgun Bayaz Ozturk & Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch, 2013. "Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 544, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
  6. Couch, Kenneth A. & Fairlie, Robert W., 2008. "Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle," IZA Discussion Papers 3713, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  7. Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & Andrew Houtenville & Ludmila Rovba, 2004. "Income Inequality in the 1990s: Re-Forging a Lost Relationship?," Working papers 2004-11, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  8. Kenneth A. Couch & Mary C. Daly, 2004. "The improving relative status of black men," Working Paper Series 2004-02, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  9. Kenneth A. Counch, 2003. "Job Matching and Wage Growth in the U.S. and Germany," Working papers 2003-10, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  10. Kenneth A. Couch & Alice Zawacki, 2001. "The Utilization of Different Modes of Residence and Health Services by the Elderly," Working Papers 01-14, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  11. Kenneth A. Couch & Mary C. Daly, 2000. "Black-white wage inequality in the 1990s: a decade of progress," Working Paper Series 2000-07, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  12. Kenneth A. Couch & Thomas A. Dunn, 1995. "Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status: A Comparison of the United States and Germany," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 111, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
  13. R. V. Burkhauser & K. A. Couch & A. J. Glenn, "undated". "Public policies for the working poor: The earned income tax credit versus minimum wage legislation," Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 1074-95, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty.

Articles

  1. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert W. Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2023. "Racial disparities in unemployment during the COVID‐19 pandemic and recovery: The “stubborn,” the “hiccup,” and the “stall”," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(3), pages 480-495, July.
  2. Christopher R Tamborini & Gayle L Reznik & Howard M Iams & Kenneth A Couch, 2022. "The Growing Socioeconomic Gap in Lifetime Social Security Retirement Benefits: Current and Future Retirees," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 77(4), pages 803-814.
  3. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert W. Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2022. "The evolving impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market: The COVID motherhood penalty," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 60(2), pages 485-507, April.
  4. Peijingran Yu & Kenneth A. Couch, 2021. "Work limiting health and divorce behaviour: a retrospective analysis with SIPP data," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(25), pages 2799-2831, May.
  5. Couch, Kenneth A. & Fairlie, Robert W. & Xu, Huanan, 2020. "Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
  6. Peijingran Yu & Kenneth A. Couch, 2020. "Work-limiting health, earnings, and employment: an analysis with SIPP data," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(12), pages 1327-1348, March.
  7. Gayle L. Reznik & Kenneth A. Couch & Christopher R. Tamborini & Howard M. Iams, 2019. "Longevity‐Related Options For Social Security: A Microsimulation Approach To Retirement Age And Mortality Adjustments," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(1), pages 210-238, January.
  8. Kenneth A. Couch & Matthew B. Ross & Jessica Vavrek, 2018. "Career Pathways and Integrated Instruction: A National Program Review of I-BEST Implementations," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 99-125, March.
  9. Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk & Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & Richard Hauser, 2018. "The Effects of Union Dissolution on the Economic Resources of Men and Women: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States, 1985–2013," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 680(1), pages 235-258, November.
  10. Huanan Xu & Kenneth A. Couch, 2017. "The business cycle, labor market transitions by age, and the great recession," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(52), pages 5370-5396, November.
  11. William T. Alpert & Kenneth A. Couch & Oskar R. Harmon, 2016. "A Randomized Assessment of Online Learning," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(5), pages 378-382, May.
  12. Kenneth Couch & Christopher Tamborini & Gayle Reznik, 2015. "The Long-Term Health Implications of Marital Disruption: Divorce, Work Limits, and Social Security Disability Benefits Among Men," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 52(5), pages 1487-1512, October.
  13. Kenneth A. Couch, 2014. "Notes from the Editor," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(4), pages 885-886, September.
  14. Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk & Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch, 2014. "Consolidating The Evidence On Income Mobility In The Western States Of Germany And The United States From 1984 To 2006," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 52(1), pages 431-443, January.
  15. Kenneth A. Couch, 2014. "Introduction to the Research Articles," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(4), pages 887-890, September.
  16. Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk & Tao Chen & Kenneth A. Couch, 2014. "Intragenerational mobility and the ratio of permanent to total inequality," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(36), pages 4399-4408, December.
  17. Kenneth A. Couch & Douglas J. Besharov & David Neumark, 2013. "Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions: Reconsidering Hiring Credits," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(1), pages 142-171, January.
  18. Chen, Tao & Couch, Kenneth A., 2013. "Permanent and transitory inequality and intragenerational mobility," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 120(2), pages 200-202.
  19. Kenneth A. Couch, 2012. "The post‐recession employment situation: A comparative perspective," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(1), pages 153-154, December.
  20. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert Bifulco, 2012. "Can Nonexperimental Estimates Replicate Estimates Based on Random Assignment in Evaluations of School Choice? A Within‐Study Comparison," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(3), pages 729-751, June.
  21. Kenneth A. Couch & Theodore J. Joyce, 2011. "What can Massachusetts teach us about national health insurance reform?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(1), pages 177-178, December.
  22. Kenneth A. Couch & Mary C. Daly & Colin Gardiner, 2011. "Life-cycle shocks and income," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue mar14.
  23. Kenneth A. Couch, 2011. "Introduction: Health policy and sugar‐sweetened beverages," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(3), pages 644-644, June.
  24. Kenneth A. Couch, 2011. "Point/Counterpoint," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(4), pages 927-927, September.
  25. Gulgun Bayaz & Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch, 2011. "Trends in Intragenerational Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the United States (1984-2006)," Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 131(2), pages 359-368.
  26. Couch, Kenneth A. & Jolly, Nicholas A. & Placzek, Dana W., 2011. "Earnings losses of displaced workers and the business cycle: An analysis with administrative data," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 111(1), pages 16-19, April.
  27. Kenneth A. Couch & Maureen A. Pirog, 2010. "Poverty measurement in the U.S., Europe, and developing countries," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(2), pages 217-226.
  28. Kenneth A. Couch & Dana W. Placzek, 2010. "Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers Revisited," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(1), pages 572-589, March.
  29. Kenneth A. Couch, 2010. "Deficit spending and the debt," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(4), pages 875-876.
  30. Kenneth A. Couch, 2010. "Expanding work programs in child support: Whether and how," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(3), pages 603-604.
  31. Kenneth Couch & Robert Fairlie, 2010. "Last hired, first fired? black-white unemployment and the business cycle," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 47(1), pages 227-247, February.
  32. Douglas J. Besharov & Kenneth Couch, 2009. "European measures of income, poverty, and social exclusion: Recent developments and lessons for U.S. poverty measurement," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(4), pages 713-715.
  33. Thomas Cooke & Paul Boyle & Kenneth Couch & Peteke Feijten, 2009. "A longitudinal analysis of family migration and the gender gap in earnings in the united states and great britain," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 46(1), pages 147-167, February.
  34. Couch, K.A. & Morand, O.F., 2005. "Inequality, mobility, and the transmission of ability," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 365-377, June.
  35. Kenneth A. Couch, 2004. "Book Review: Industrial Relations, Politics, and Government: Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 57(4), pages 619-620, July.
  36. Kenneth A. Couch, 2003. "Inequality on the United States in the 1980s and 1990s," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 12(3-4), pages 1-1, September.
  37. Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & Andrew Houtenville & Ludmila Rovba, 2003. "Income Inequality in the 1990s: Re-forging a Lost Relationship," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 12(3-4), pages 2-2, September.
  38. Kenneth A. Couch & Mary Daly, 2003. "The Improving Relative Status of Black Men," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 12(3-4), pages 4-4, September.
  39. Kenneth A. Couch, 2002. "Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy Models," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 56(1), pages 180-181, October.
  40. Kenneth Couch, 2002. "Black-White Wage Inequality in the 1990s: a Decade of Progress," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 40(1), pages 31-41, January.
  41. Kenneth A. Couch, 2001. "Earnings Losses and Unemployment of Displaced Workers in Germany," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 54(3), pages 559-572, April.
  42. Kenneth A. Couch, 2001. "Individual Heterogeneity, Job Matching, and Returns to Tenure in Germany," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 70(1), pages 39-43.
  43. Kenneth A. Couch & David C. Wittenburg, 2001. "The Response of Hours of Work to Increases in the Minimum Wage," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 68(1), pages 171-177, July.
  44. Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & David C. Wittenburg, 2000. "Who Minimum Wage Increases Bite: An Analysis Using Monthly Data from the SIPP and the CPS," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 67(1), pages 16-40, July.
  45. Burkhauser, Richard V & Couch, Kenneth A & Wittenburg, David C, 2000. "A Reassessment of the New Economics of the Minimum Wage Literature with Monthly Data from the Current Population Survey," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 18(4), pages 653-680, October.
  46. Thomas A. Dunn & Kenneth A. Couch, 1999. "Intergenerational Correlations in Earnings in Three Countries: The United Kingdom, Germany and the United States," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 68(2), pages 290-296.
  47. Kenneth Couch & Mary Daly & Douglas Wolf, 1999. "Time? money? both? the allocation of resources to older Parents," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 36(2), pages 219-232, May.
  48. Kenneth A. Couch, 1999. "Distribution and employment impacts of raising the minimum wage," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue feb19.
  49. Couch, Kenneth A. & Lillard, Dean R., 1998. "Sample selection rules and the intergenerational correlation of earnings," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(3), pages 313-329, September.
  50. Kenneth A. Couch & Thomas A. Dunn, 1997. "Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status: A Comparison of the United States and Germany," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 32(1), pages 210-232.
  51. Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & David C. Wittenburg, 1996. "“Who Gets What†from Minimum Wage Hikes: A Re-Estimation of Card and Krueger's Distributional Analysis in Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 49(3), pages 547-552, April.
  52. Couch, Kenneth A, 1992. "New Evidence on the Long-Term Effects of Employment Training Programs," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(4), pages 380-388, October.
  53. Makin, John H & Couch, Kenneth A, 1989. "Saving, Pension Contributions, and the Real Interest Rate," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 71(3), pages 401-407, August.

Chapters

  1. Kenneth A. Couch & Robert Fairlie & Huanan Xu, 2018. "Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession," Research in Labor Economics, in: Transitions through the Labor Market, volume 46, pages 1-53, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  2. Kenneth A. Couch & Gayle L. Reznik & Christopher R. Tamborini & Howard M. Iams, 2014. "Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality," Research in Labor Economics, in: New Analyses of Worker Well-Being, volume 38, pages 259-305, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Books

  1. Besharov, Douglas J. & Couch, Kenneth A. (ed.), 2012. "Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199860586.

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  1. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (9) 2003-03-19 2005-12-14 2008-10-13 2016-03-10 2020-06-22 2020-06-29 2020-07-20 2021-11-29 2021-12-06. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2020-06-22 2021-12-06
  3. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2016-03-10 2020-07-20
  4. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2021-12-06
  5. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2020-06-22
  6. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (1) 2013-03-23
  7. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2021-11-29
  8. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2020-07-20

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