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August 2002, Vol. 125, No. 8

Publications received

Ackerberg, Daniel A., and Marc Rysman, Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 33 pp. (Working Paper 8798) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Benchmarking Working Europe 2002. Brussels, European Trade Union Confederation, 2002, 75 pp.

Bertrand, Marianne, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan, How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 37 pp. (Working Paper 8841) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Robert E., Industry Dynamics with Adjustment Costs. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 37 pp. (Working Paper 8849) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lichtenberg, Frank R., Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960–1997. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 32 pp. (Working Paper 8755) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Economic growth and development

Au, Chun-Chung, and Vernon Henderson, How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 59 pp. (Working Paper 8707) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Beaudry, Paul, and Fabrice Collard, Why Has the Employment-Productivity Tradeoff among Industrialized Countries Been So Strong? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 41 pp. (Working Paper 8754) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Card, David, and Richard B. Freeman, What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 71 pp. (Working Paper 8801) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Freeman, Richard B., and Ronald Schettkat, Marketization of Production and the U.S.-Europe Employment Gap. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 30 pp. (Working Paper 8797) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gordon, Robert J., Technology and Economic Performance in the American Economy. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 56 pp. (Working Paper 8771) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Griffith, David, and Manuel Valdés Pizzini, Fishers At Work, Workers at Sea: A Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2002, 280 pp., $62.50/cloth, $19.95/paperback.

Jovanovic, Boyan, and Peter L. Rousseau, The Q-Theory of Mergers. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 13 pp. (Working Paper 8740) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ehrenberg, Ronald G., and Christopher L. Smith, Within State Transitions from 2-year to 4-year Public Institutions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 37 pp. (Working Paper 8792) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hanushek, Eric A., Publicly Provided Education. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 128 pp. (Working Paper 8799) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Krueger, Alan B., Economic Considerations and Class Size. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 48 pp. (Working Paper 8875) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems ILO–OSH 2001. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2001, 27 pp.

Linder, Marc, Moments Are the Elements of Profit: Overtime and the Deregulation of Working Hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Iowa City, Fãnpìhuà Press, 2000, 524 pp.

Loutfi, Martha Fetherolf, ed., Women, Gender, and Work: What Is Equality And How Do We Get There? Geneva, International Labour Office, 2001, 565 pp., $26.95/softcover.

Graham, Stuart J.H., Bronwyn H. Hall, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery, Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control:" A Comparative Study of U.S. Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 44 pp. (Working Paper 8807) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Dickinson, David G., and Andrew W. Mullineux, eds., Financial and Monetary Integration in the New Europe: Convergence between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001, 474 pp., $120/hardcover.

Edmonds, Eric, and Nina Pavcnik, Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 49 pp. (Working Paper 8760) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gavin, Brigid, The European Union and Globalisation: Towards Global Democratic Governance. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001, 249 pp., $90/cloth.

Hamermesh, Daniel S., International Labor Economics. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 30 pp. (Working Paper 8757) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Harris, Nigel, Thinking the Unthinkable: The Immigration Myth Exposed. New York, I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2002, 183 pp.

Massey, Douglas S., Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke And Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, 256 pp., $29.95/cloth.

Margo, Robert A., The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 46 pp. (Working Paper 8778) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Chan, Sewin, and Ann Huff Stevens, How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 32 pp. (Working Paper 8780) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Stein, Tobie S., Workforce Transitions from the Profit to the Nonprofit Sector. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002, 194 pp., $75/hardcover.

Desai, Mihir A., The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 54 pp. (Working Paper 8866) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Nagin, Daniel, James Rebitzer, Seth Sanders, and Lowell Taylor, Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 46 pp. (Working Paper 8811) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Blank, Rebecca M., Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 31 pp. (Working Paper 8820) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lochner, Lance, and Alexander MongeNaranjo, Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 45 pp. (Working Paper 8815) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lach, Saul, Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: An Empirical Analysis. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 26 pp. (Working Paper 8737) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

National Research Council, At What Price? Conceptualizing and Measuring Cost-of-Living and Price Indexes. Landover, MD, National Academy Press, 2002, 332 pp., $49.95/hardcover.

Aw, Bee Yan, Sukkyun Chung, and Mark J. Roberts, Productivity, Output, and Failure: A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 45 pp. (Working Paper 8766) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Jovanovic, Boyan, and Peter L. Rousseau, Moore’s Law And Learning-By-Doing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 29 pp. (Working Paper 8762) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Kaiser, Ulrich, The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women’s Magazines. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 31 pp. (Working Paper 8806) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Klette, Tor Jakob, and Samuel Kortum, Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 43 pp. (Working Paper 8819) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Wolff, Edward N., Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 46 pp. (Working Paper 8743) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Carneiro, Pedro, Karsten T. Hensen, and James J. Heckman, Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 29 pp. (Working Paper 8840) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Galenson, David W., Was Jackson Pollock the Greatest Modern American Painter? A Quantitative Investigation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8830) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Page, Marianne E., and Ann Huff Stevens, Will You Miss Me When I Am Gone? The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8786) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Beaudry, Paul, and David A. Green, Changes in U.S. Wages 1976–2000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 39 pp. (Working Paper 8787) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gruber, Jonathan, and Brigitte C. Madrian, Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 58 pp. (Working Paper 8817) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Levine, David I., Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica Groshen, and K.C. O’Shaughnessy, How New Is the "New Employment Contract?" Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2002, 263 pp., $40/cloth.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Gustman, Alan L, and Thomas L. Steinmeier, Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior within the Family. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 46 pp. (Working Paper 8772) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lachance, Marie-Eve, and Olivia S. Mitchell, Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: The Option to Buy-back a Defined Benefit Promise Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 24 pp. (Working Paper 8731) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Munger, Frank, ed., Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, 319 pp., $42.50/hardcover.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Ageing and Income: Financial Resources and Retirement in 9 OECD Countries. Paris, OECD Publications, 2001, 187 pp.

Worker training and development

Black, Dan A., Jeffrey A. Smith, Mark C. Berger, and Brett J. Noel, Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective Than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 48 pp. (Working Paper 8825) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

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