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February 1999, Vol. 122, No. 2

Publications received

Economic and social statistics

Israel, Central Bureau of Statistics, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Jerusalem, June 1998; September 1998; October 1998, 157 pp., respectively.

Japan Institute of Labour, Japanese Working Life Profile: Labour Statistics 1997–98. Tokyo, 1998, 84 pp.

Jasso, Guillermina, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith, The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 44 pp. (Working Paper 6764.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Bound, John and Gary Solon, Double Trouble: On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 32 pp. (Working Paper 6721.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Card, David and A. Abigail Payne, School Financing Reform, The Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 57 pp. (Working Paper 6766.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Leadership Directories, Inc., Congressional Yellow Book: Who’s Who in Congress, Including Committees and Key Staff. Washington, Leadership Directories, Inc., 1998, 1.320 pp.; Leadership Directories: Who’s Who in the Leadership of the United States. Washington, Leadership Directories, Inc., 1998, 26 pp. $275, paper.

Ashcraft, Donna M., Women’s Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women. New York, Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, Inc., 1998, $29.95, paper.

Babson, Steve and Huberto Juarez Nunez, Confronting Change: Auto Labor and Lean Production in North America. Detroit, MI Wayne State University, Labor Studies Center, 550 pp.

Barker, Kathleen and Kathleen Christensen, eds., Contingent Work: American Employment Relations In Transition. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1998, 350 pp. $18.95, paper.

Bor, Victoria L. and John C. Artz, eds., Occupational Safety and Health Law: 1997 Cumulative Supplement Covering 1987–1995. Washington, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1997, 643 pp. $85, paper.

Crandall, N. Frederic and Marc J. Wallace, Jr., Work and Rewards in the Virtual Workplace: A New Deal for Organizations and Employees. New York, AMACOM, A Division of American Management Association, 1998, 258 pp. $27.95.

Levine, David I., Working in the Twenty-First Century: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity, and Education. Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998, 286 pp., bibliography. $61.95, cloth; $24.95, paper.

Stein, Howard F., Euphemism, Spin, and the Crisis in Organizational Life. Westport, CT., Quorum Books, 1998,172 pp. $55.

Stein, Judith, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1998, 410 pp. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Vogel, Laurent, Prevention at the Workplace: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, and Switzerland. Brussels, Belgium, European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety, 1998, 218 pp.

Arnesen, Eric, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie, eds., Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1998, 382 pp. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Montgomery, David and Marcel van der Linden, eds., August Sartorius von Waltershausen: The Workers Movement in the United States, 1879–1885. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 253 pp., bibliography. $49.95.

Palmer, David, Organizing The Shipyards: Union Strategy In Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1998, 264 pp., bibliography. $39.95.

Tine, Warren Van and others, In the Workers’ Interest: A History of the Ohio AFL-CIO, 1958–1998. Columbus, Ohio State University, Center for Labor Research, 1998, 219 pp.

Acemoglu, Daron, Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 45 pp. (Working Paper 6658.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Eisenberg, Susan, We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1998, 216 pp. $25.

Ferber, Marianne A., ed., Women in the Labor Market. Vols. I & II. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998, 563 and 617 pp., respectively. $400.

Herzenberg, Stephen A., John A. Alic, and Howard Wial, New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1998, 216 pp. $26.50.

International Labor Organization, World Employment Report, 1998–99: Employability in the Global Economy, How Training Matters. Washington, 1998, 258 pp. 34.95. Available from the ILO Publications Center, Waldorf, MD 20604–0753.

Jaeger, David A. and Ann Huff Stevens, Is Job Stability In the United States Falling? Reconciling Trends In the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 42 pp. (Working Paper 6650.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neal, Derek, The Complexity of Job Mobility Among Young Men. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 42 pp. (Working Paper 6662.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages, 1996. Washington, 2506, Stock No. 029–001–

03310–9. $3.25. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–9328

Greenwood, Jeremy and Boyan Jovanovic, Accounting for Growth. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 55 pp. (Working Paper 6647.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Social institutions and social change

Feldman, Shelley and Eveline Ferretti, Informal Work and Social Change: A Bibliographic Survey. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1998, 316 pp. $35.

Wages and compensation

Aggarwal, Rajesh and Andrew A. Samwick, The Other Side of the Tradeoff: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 39 pp. (Working Paper 6634.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Butcher, Kristin F. and John DiNardo, The Immigrant and Native-Born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 43 pp. (Working Paper 6630.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Hall, Brian J., The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 47 pp. (Working Paper 6674.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Joshi, Heather and Pierella Paci, Unequal Pay for Women and Men: Evidence from the British Birth Cohort Studies. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1998, 180 pp. $30.

Leamer, Edward E. and Christopher Thornberg, Efforts and Wages: A New Look at the Inter-Industry Wage Differentials. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 40 pp. (Working Paper 6626.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Atlanta, GA, National Compensation Survey. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–48, Stock No. 029–001–00845–5. $6. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Cleveland-Akron, OH National Compensation Survey, February 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–47, Stock No. 829–001–00844–7. $5.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Columbus, OH, National Compensation Survey, March 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3095–01, Stock No. 829–001–00848–0. $5. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Detroit—Ann Arbor—Flint, MI, National Compensation Survey, March 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3095–05, Stock No. 829–001–00852–8. $5.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 1986–97. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 2505. Stock No.029–001–03311–7. $20. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–9328.

_____Indianapolis, IN National Compensation Survey, February 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–43, Stock No. 829–001–00840–4. $5.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____New York—Northern New Jersey—Long Island, NY—NJ—CT—PA National Compensation Survey, March 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3095–04, Stock No. 829–001–00851–0. $6.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD National Compensation Survey, February 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–49, Stock No. 829–001–00846–3. $6. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Pittsburgh, PA National Compensation Survey, December 1997. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–44, Stock No. 829–001–00841–2. $5.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

____Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC National Compensation Survey, March 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3090–46, Stock No. 829–001–00843–9. $4.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Rochester, NY National Compensation Survey, January 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin, 3090–45, Stock No. 829–001–00842–1. $4.50. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954.

_____Washington—Baltimore, DC—MD—VA—WV, National Compensation Survey, March 1998. Washington, 1998, Bulletin 3095–02, Stock No. 829–001–00849–8. $6. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA, 15250–7954.

Welfare programs and social insurance

Acemoglu, Daron and Robert Shimer, Efficient Unemployment Insurance. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 32 pp. (Working Paper 6686.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Angrist, Joshua D. and John H. Johnson, IV, Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 29 pp. (Working Paper 6679.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Farber, Henry S. and Helen Levy, Recent Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: Are Bad Jobs Getting Worse. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 46 pp. (Working Paper 6709.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Gustman, Alan L. and Thomas L. Steinmeier, Effects of Pensions on Savings: Analysis With Data from the Health and Retirement Study. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 69 pp. (Working Paper 6681.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Solow, Robert M. and Amy Gutmann, eds., Work and Welfare. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1998, 100 pp. $19.95.

Lemieux, Thomas and W. Bentley MacLeod, Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 51 pp. (Working Paper 6732.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Rupp, Kalman and David C. Stapleton, eds., Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications. Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998, 433 pp. $33, cloth; $23, paper.

Siebert, Horst, ed., Redesigning Social Security. Kiel, Germany, Kiel Institute for World Economics. 1998, 387 pp. $99.50. Available from The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

Vroman, Wayne, Topics In Unemployment Insurance Financing. Kalamazoo, MI. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998, 171 pp. $24, cloth; $14, paper.

Workers training and development

Acemoglu, Daron and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Beyond Becker: Training In Imperfect Labor Markets. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 37 pp. (Working Paper 6740.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

Neumark, David and William Wascher, Minimum Wages and Training Revisited. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1998, 36 pp. (Working Paper 6651.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.

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