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August 2003, Vol. 126, No.8

Publications received

OECD Agricultural Outlook 2002–2007. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002, 20 pp., softcover.

Annual Statistical Supplement, 2002 to the Social Security Bulletin. Washington, DC, Social Security Administration, 2002, 379 pp., softcover.

Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, Outsourcing Versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 14 pp. (Working Paper 9300) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Barros, Carlos Pestana, eds., Transatlantic Sport: The Comparative Economics of North American and European Sports. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2003, 240 pp., $85/hardback.

Freeman, Richard, ed., Inequality Around the World. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 281 pp., $75/cloth.

Global Trends in the Dairy Industry: Outlook for the Baltics. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002, 185 pp., softcover.

Lipsey, Robert E. and Frederik Sjohölm, Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages: An Analysis with Panel Data. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 24 pp. (Working Paper 9417) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Angrist, Joshua D. and Victor Lavy, The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 38 pp. (Working Paper 9389) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Black, Sandra E. and Amir Sufi, Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 43 pp. (Working Paper 9310) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Health and safety

International Labour Office, Children at Work: Health and Safety Risks Second Edition. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2002, 169 pp., $17.95/softcover.

International Labour Office, HIV/AIDS and the World of Work. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2002, 63 pp., $6.95/softcover.

Gilbert, Douglas G., Brian W. Burkett, and Moira K. McCaskill, Canadian Labour and Employment Law for the U.S. Practitioner 2002 Supplement. Washington, DC, BNA Books (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.), 2002, 246 pp., $145/paperback; $285 with the main volume (780 pp., hardcover).

Osterman, Paul, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard M. Locke, and Michael J. Piore, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002, 239 pp., $17.95/paperback.

Theriault, Reg, The Unmaking of the American Working Class. New York, The New Press, 2003, 211 pp., $24.95/hardcover.

Currie, Janet, Mehdi Farsi, and W. Bentley MacLeod, Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 34 pp. (Working Paper 9428) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Daly, Mary, ed., Care Work: The Quest for Security. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2001, 261 pp., $19.95/softcover.

Regional Integration in Africa. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002, 215 pp., softcover.

A Future Without Child Labour: Global Report Under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 2002. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2002, 138 pp., $12.95/softcover.

Autor, David H., John J. Donohue III, and Stewart J. Schwab, The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 57 pp. (Working Paper 9425) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Kletzer, Lori G., Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss? Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002, 221 pp., $36/cloth; $16/paperback.

Moretti, Enrico, Human Capital Spillovers in Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 48 pp. (Working Paper 9316) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Labor organizations

Blanchflower, David G. and Alex Bryson, Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in the U.K. and the U.S. Revisited. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 65 pp. (Working Paper 9395) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Brisbin Jr., Richard A., A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989–1990. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 350 pp., $44.95/hardcover.

Doeringer, Peter B., Christine Evans-Klock, and David G. Terkla, Startup Factories: High-Performance Management, Job Quality, and Regional Advantage. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002, 273 pp., $49.95/hardcover; $24.95/softcover.

Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 42 pp. (Working Paper 9403) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

International Labour Office, Managing Disability in the Workplace: An ILO Code of Practice. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2002, 41 pp., $6.95/softcover.

Blasi, Joseph, Douglas Kruse, and Aaron Bernstein, In the Company of Owners: The Truth about Stock Options. New York, Basic Books, 2003, 345 pp., $27.50/cloth.

Gustman, Alan L. and Thomas L. Steinmeier, Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 43 pp. (Working Paper 9404) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ariga, Kenn and Kenji Matsui, Mismeasurement of the CPI. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 60 pp. (Working Paper 9436) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Arora, Ashish, Marco Ceccagnoli, and Wesley M. Cohen, R&D and the Patent Premium. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 58 pp. (Working Paper 9431) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lerner, Josh and Jean Tirole, The Scope of Open Source Licensing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9363) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lichtenberg, Frank R. and Suchin Virabhak, Pharmaceutical Embodied Technical Progress, Longevity, and Quality of Life: Drugs as "Equipment for Your Health." Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9351) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Costello, Cynthia B., Vanessa R. Wight, and Anne J. Stone, eds., The American Woman 2003–2004: Daughters of a Revolution—Young Women Today. New York, Women’s Research and Education Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 413 pp., $24.95/paperback.

Levitt, Steven D., Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2003, 30 pp. (Working Paper 9449) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Borjas, George J., The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers Into the Public Sector. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 45 pp. (Working Paper 9313) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Edwards, Huw T. and John Whalley, Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 36 pp. (Working Paper 9265) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Krueger, Dirk and Fabrizio Perri, Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 44 pp. (Working Paper 9202) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Levine, David I., Frank W. Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, and Cristian Echeverria, Carve-Outs in Workers’ Compensation. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002, 181 pp., $35/cloth; $18/paperback.

Mitchell, Olivia S. and Stephen P. Utkus, The Role of Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9250) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Stephens Jr., Melvin, Paycheck Receipt and the Timing of Consumption. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 30 pp. (Working Paper 9356) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Ascoli, Ugo and Costanzo Ranci, eds., Dilemmas of the Welfare Mix: The New Structure of Welfare in an Era of Privatization. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002, 264 pp., $79.50/hardcover.

Blau, Francine D., Lawrence M. Kahn, and Jane Waldfogel, The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 35 pp. (Working Paper 9338) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Borjas, George J., Food Insecurity and Public Assistance. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 36 pp. (Working Paper 9236) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gruber, Jonathan and David A. Wise, Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 52 pp. (Working Paper 9407) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Moffitt, Robert, Welfare Programs and Labor Supply. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 61 pp. (Working Paper 9168) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Sarfati, Hedva and Giuliano Bonoli, eds., Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002, 494 pp., $39.95/softcover.

Worker training and development

Ashton, David N. and Johnny Sung, Supporting Workplace Learning for High Performance Working. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2002, 182 pp., $18.95/softcover.

Eberts, Randall W., Christopher J. O’Leary, and Stephen A. Wandner, Targeting Employment Services. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002, 425 pp., $40/cloth; $23/paper.

Williams, Mary Beth and John F. Sommer Jr., eds., Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice. New York, The Haworth Press, Inc., 2002, 408 pp., softcover.

Winegar, Norman, Employee Assistance Programs in Managed Care. New York, The Haworth Press, Inc., 2002, 168 pp., $49.95/hardcover; $24.95/softcover.

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