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May 2002, Vol. 125, No. 5

Publications received

Annual Statistical Supplement, 2001. Washington, DC, Social Security Administration, SSA Publication No. 13–11700, 381 pp.

Boersch-Supan, Axel, Labor Market Effects of Population Aging. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8640) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Regional Economic Patterns in the United States, 1990–1999. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2001, Report 953, 34 pp.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report: 2001 Promoting Linkages. United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2001, 354 pp.

Economic growth and development

Aronowitz, Stanley, The Last Good Job in America: Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001, 288 pp., $27.95/cloth.

Atkeson, Andrew, and Patrick J. Kehoe, The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 53 pp. (Working Paper 8676) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bloom, David E., David Canning, and Jaypee Sevilla, Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 86 pp. (Working Paper 8685) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bloom, David E., David Canning, and Jaypee Sevilla, Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 25 pp. (Working Paper 8713) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lensink, Robert, Hong Bo, and Elmer Sterken, Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty: Theory and Empirical Results. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001, 155 pp., $70/hardcover.

Mairesse, Jacques and Pierre Mohnen, To Be Or Not To Be Innovative: An Exercise in Measurement. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8644) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mitchell, Olivia S., Developments in Decumulation: The Role of Annuity Products in Financing Retirement. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 45 pp. (Working Paper 8567) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Education

Bound, John, Jeffrey Groen, Gábor Kézdi, and Sarah Turner, Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 58 pp. (Working Paper 8555) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Alaluf, Mateo, and Carlos Prieto, eds., Collective Bargaining and the Social Construction of Employment. Brussels, European Trade Union Institute, 2001, 213 pp., softcover.

Chaison, Gary and Barbara Bigelow, Unions and Legitimacy. Ithaca and London, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 133 pp., hardcover.

Hodson, Randy, Dignity at Work. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 320 pp., $64.95/hardcover, $22.95/paperback.

Kleiner, Morris M. and Hwikwon Ham, Do Industrial Relations Institutions Impact Economic Outcomes?: International and U.S. State-level Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 43 pp. (Working Paper 8729) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Logue, John and Jacquelyn Yates, The Real World of Employee Ownership. Ithaca, NY, ILR Press, 2001, 247 pp., $45/cloth, $17.95/paperback.

Baker, George P. and Thomas N. Hubbard, Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 44 pp. (Working Paper 8727) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gans, Joshua, ed., Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2000, 294 pp., $30/softcover.

Niederle, Muriel and Alvin E. Roth, Unraveling Reduces the Scope of an Entry Level Labor Market: Gastroenterology With and Without a Centralized Match. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 28 pp. (Working Paper 8616) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Arestis, Philip, Andrew Brown, and Malcolm Sawyer, The Euro: Evolution and Prospects. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001, 152 pp., $65/hardcover.

Baker, Michael, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan, The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada’s Income Security Programs. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 47 pp. (Working Paper 8658) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bivins, Laura L. and Kala Krishna, Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 30 pp. (Working Paper 8619) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Haskel, Jonathan E., Sonia C. Pereira, and Matthew J. Slaughter, Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8724) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hu, Albert G.Z. and Adam B. Jaffe, Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow: The Cases of Korea and Taiwan. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8528) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Koo, Hagen, Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2001, 240 pp., $45/cloth, $17.95/paperback.

Labor and economic history

Lichtenstein, Nelson, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002, 352 pp., $29.95/cloth.

Broman, Clifford L., V. Lee Hamilton, and William S. Hoffman, Stress and Distress among the Unemployed: Hard Times and Vulnerable People. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001, 226 pp., $49.95/hardcover.

Clogg, Clifford C., Scott R. Eliason, and Kevin T. Leicht, Analyzing the Labor Force: Concepts, Measures, and Trends. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001, 266 pp., $95/hardcover, $37.50/paperback.

Employment and Wages Annual Averages, 2000. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2001, Bulletin 2546, 540 pp.

Houseman, Susan and Alice Nakamura, eds., Working Time in Comparative Perspective Volume II: Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 371 pp.

Neumark, David and Daiji Kawaguchi, Attrition Bias in Economic Relationships Estimated with Matched CPS Files. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 43 pp. (Working Paper 8663) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Occupational Employment and Wages, 1999. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2001, Bulletin 2545, 182 pp.

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, 2001, 239 pp., $29.95/hardcover.

Wong, Ging, and Garnett Picot, eds., Working Time in Comparative Perspective Volume I: Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications of Earnings Inequality and Unemployment. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 387 pp.

Gifford, Court, ed., Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations 2001 Edition. Washington, DC, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 2001, 290 pp., $49.95/hardcover.

Atkeson, Andrew, Patrick J. Kehoe, Measuring Organization Capital. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 35 pp. (Working Paper 8722) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Dave, Dhaval, and Robert Kaestner, Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 25 pp. (Working Paper 8562) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Consumer Expenditures Survey, 1998–99. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2001, Report 955, 289 pp.

Pakes, Ariel, A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indices with an Application to PC’s. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2002, 56 pp. (Working Paper 8715) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Keller, Wolfgang, International Technology Diffusion. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., October 2001, 59 pp. (Working Paper 8573) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mort, Maggie, Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002, 217 pp., $32.95/cloth.

Towse, Ruth, Creativity, Incentive and Reward: An Economic Analysis of Copyright and Culture in the Information Age. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001, 192 pp., $80/hardcover.

Williams, Martha E., ed., Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Vol. 35). Medford, NJ, Information Today, Inc., 2001, 581 pp.

National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the West North Central Census Division, 1999. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2001, Bulletin 2544–4, 38 pp.

Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill, NC, National Compensation Survey April 2001. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2001, Bulletin 3110–32, 54 pp.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner and Marguerite G. Rosenthal, eds., Diminishing Welfare: A Cross-National Study of Social Provision. Westport, CT, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001, 408 pp., $75/hardcover, $28/softcover.

Lennon, Mary Clare, ed., Welfare, Work, and Well-being. Binghamton, NY, The Haworth Medical Press, 2001, 299 pp., $74.95/hardcover, $44.95/softcover.

Robins, Philip K. and Robert G. Spiegelman, eds., Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence from Three Field Experiments. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 295 pp.

Worker training and development

International Training Programs in Labor Statistics, 2002. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics, 23 pp.

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