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May, 2001, Vol. 124, No. 5

Publications received

Attack, Jeremy, Fred Bateman, and Robert A. Margo, Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishment, 1850-1880. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 40 pp. (Working Paper 7932.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Heckman, James, Justin L. Tobias, and Edward Vytlacil, Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters In a Latent Variable Framework With An Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 34 pp. (Working Paper 7950.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, October. Jerusalem, Israel, Central Bureau of Statistics. 2000, 153 pp.

Mullainathan, Sendhil and Richard H. Thaler, Behavioral Economics. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 12 pp. (Working Paper 7948.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Sacerdote, Bruce, The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 31 pp. (Working Paper 7949.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Pakes, Ariel, A Framework for Applied Dynamic Analysis in I.O. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 54 pp. (Working Paper 8024.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Scholz, Wolfgang, Michael Cichon, and Krzysztof Hagemejer, Social Budgeting: Quantitative Methods in Social Protection Series. Washington, International Labour Organization, 2000, 328 pp. $49.95. Available in the United States from ILO Publications Center, Waldorf, MD 20604-0753.

Economic growth and development

Golden, Lonnie and Deborah M. Figart eds., Working Time: International Trends, Theory, and Policy Perspectives. New York, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2000, 269 pp. $100.

de Groot, Henri L.F. Growth, Unemployment and Deindustrialization. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2000, 315 pp. $100.

von Hirschhausen, Christian and Jurgen Bitzer, eds., The Globalization of Industry and Innovation in Eastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Restructuring to International Competitiveness. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2000, 340 pp. $100.

Acemoglu, Daron and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children’s Education. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 18 pp. (Working Paper 7986.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Ehrenberg, Ronald G., John J. Cheslock, and Julia Epifantseva, Paying Our Presidents: What Do Trustees Value? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 32 pp. (Working Paper 7886.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Fernandez, Raquel, Sorting, Education and Inequality. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 53 pp. (Working Paper 8101.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Kling, Jeffrey R., Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 26 pp. (Working Paper 7989.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Machan, Tibor, ed., Education in a Free Society. Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, 149 pp. $16.95 paper.

Maxwell, Nan L. and Victor Rubin, High School Career Academies: A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban School Districts? Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000, 235 pp.

Arnold, Gordon B., The Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New England Universities. Westport, CT, Bergin & Gravey, 2000, 148 pp. $49.95.

Cappelli, Peter and William Carter, Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7987.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Carter, Donald D., Canadian Labour Law at the Millennium: The Growing Influence of Human Rights Requirements. Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University, Industrial Relations Center, IRC Press, 2000, 18 pp.

Contensou, Francois and Radu Vranceanu, Working Time: Theory and Policy Implications. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, Publishing, Inc., 2000, 232 pp. $90.

De Geest, Gerrit, Jacques Siegers, and Roger Van Den Bergh, eds., Law and Economics and the Labour Market. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1999, 249 pp. $95.

Ellwood, David T. and others, A Working Nation. Workers, Work, and Government in the New Economy. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, 146 pp. $16.95, paper.

Gifford, Court, ed., Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations. 2000 ed. Washington, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 287 pp. $90, paper.

Kato, Takao, The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 27 pp. (Working Paper 7965.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Koscielski, Frank, Divided Loyalties: American Unions and the Vietnam War. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000, 195 pp. (The History of American Labor Series.)

Lynd, Staughton, and Alice Lynd, eds., The New Rank and File. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2000, 262 pp. $15.95, paper.

Budd, John W. and Matthew J. Slaughter, Are Profits Shared Across Borders? Evidence on International Rent Sharing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8014.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Cohen, Stephen D., The Making of United States International Economic Policy: Principles, Problems and Proposals for Reform. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2000, 305 pp. $29.95, paper.

Benin, Leigh David, The New Labor Radicalism and New York City’s Garment industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents in the 1960s. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000, 330 pp. bibliography. $76. (The History of American Labor Series.)

Dubofsky, Melvyn, (Edited by Joseph A. McCartin.) We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Abridged ed. Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2000, 289 pp. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

McIntosh, Robert, Boys In the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, 305 pp. bibliography.

Autor, David H., Wiring the Labor Market. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Ecoomic Research, Inc., 2000, 25 pp. (Working Paper 7959.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Baker, Michael and Nicole M. Fortin, Does Comparable Worth Work In a Decentralized Labor Market? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 49 pp. (Working Paper 7937.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bound, John and Timothy Waidmann, Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates Among the Working-Aged Disabled. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 27 pp. (Working Paper 7975.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hamermesh, Daniel S., 12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 27 pp. (Working Paper 8016.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Kim, Jongsung, Labor Supply and Occupational Structure of Asian Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000, 107 pp. $40. (The History of American Labor Series.)

Mocan, H. Naci and Erdal Tekin, Nonprofit Sector and Part-time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7977.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neumark, David, ed., On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment A Thing of the Past? New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, 527 pp. $59.95.

Prywes, Ruth W., The United States Labor Force: A Descriptive Analysis. Westport, CT, Quorum Books, 2000, 393 pp., bibliography. $75.

Warner, Aaron W., Mathew Forstater, Sumner M. Rosen, eds., Commitment to Full Employment: The Economics and Social Policy of William S. Vickrey. Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000, 240 pp.$

Bishop, Charles H. Jr., Making Change Happen One Person at a Time: Assessing Change Capacity Within Your Organization. New York, AMACOM, A Division of American Management Association, 2001, 260 pp. $27.95.

Layne, Judy, Forging New Families: An Overview of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Context of Organizational Change. Kingston Ontario, Queen’s University, Industrial Relations Center, IRC Press, 2000, 19 pp.

Topchik, Gary S., Managing Workplace Negativity. New York, AMACOM, A Division of American Management Association, 2001, 193 pp. $21.95.

Bradford, David F., Taxation, Wealth, and Saving. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2000, 540 pp. $55.

Ellwood, David T. and Jeffrey B. Liebman, The Middle Class Parent Penalty: Child Benefits in the U.S. Tax Code. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 51 pp. (Working Paper 8031.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Poterba, James M., ed., Tax Policy and the Economy. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2000, 203 pp. $20, paper.

Acemoglu, Daron and Jaume Ventura, The World Income Distribution. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, 38 pp. (Working Paper 8083.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Baker, Laurence C., Managed Care and Technology Adoption in Health Care: Evidence From Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, (Working Paper 8020.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Berman, Eli, Does Factor-Biased Technological Change Stifle International Convergence? Evidence from Manufacturing. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 44 pp. (Working Paper 7964.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Branstetter, Lee, Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Japan’s FDI in the United States. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 36 pp. (Working Paper 8015.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

____and Mariko Sakakibara, When Do Research Consortia Work Well and Why? Evidence from Japanese Panel Data. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 36 pp. (Working Paper 7972.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Haltiwanger, John C. and James R. Spletzer, Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 50 pp. (Working Paper 7994.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Jaffe, Adam B., Richard G. Newell, Robert N. Stavins, Technological Change and the Environment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 78 pp. (Working Paper 7970.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Lach, Saul, Do R&D Subsidies Stimulate or Displace Private R&D? Evidence from Israel. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 37 pp. (Working Paper 7943.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mulkay, Benoit, Bronwyn H. Hall, and Jacques Mairesse, Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States: A Comparison. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 47 pp. (Working Paper 8038.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Nordhaus, William D., New Data and Output Concepts for Understanding Productivity Trends. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2001, (Working Paper 8097.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Trajtenberg, Manuel, R&D Policy in Israel: An Overview and Reassessment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 59 pp. (Working Paper 7930.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Angrist, Josh, Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios: Evidence from America’s Second Generation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 53 pp. (Working Paper 8042.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gruber, Jonathan, Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 43 pp. (Working Paper 7968.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bertrand, Marianne and Kevin F. Hallock, The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 33 pp. (Working Paper 7931.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Budetti, Peter P. and others, eds., Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 519 pp.

Chan, Sewin and Ann Huff Stevens, Retirement Incentives and Expectations. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research Inc., 2001, (Working Paper 8082.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Holtz, V. Joseph, Guido W. Imbens, and Jacob A. Klerman, The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 63 pp. (Working Paper 8007.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Katz, Lawrence F., Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jeffrey B. Liebman, Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 58 pp. (Working Paper 7973.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Mitchell, Olivia S. and John W.R. Phillips, Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2000, 35 pp. (Working Paper 7963.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Schieber, Sylvester J. and John B. Shoven, The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security. New Haven, CT, Yale University press, 1999, 450 pp. $

Social Security Administration, Income of Disabled-Worker Beneficiaries. Washington, Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, 2001, 34 pp. Stock No. $ For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001.

Thomason, Terry, Timoty P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton, Jr., Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001, 457 pp.

Worker training and development

Gasskov, Vladimir, Managing Vocational Training Systems: A Handbook for Senior Administrators. Geneva, International Labour Organization, 2000, 278 pp. bibliography. Available in the United States from ILO Publications Center, Waldorf, MD.

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